E426: American Securities CEO on Warren Buffett, Private Equity & Playing the Long Game
How I Invest with David WeisburdShow Notes
What happens when a private equity firm refuses to chase every new opportunity and spends 30 years getting better at one thing?
David sits down with Michael Fisch, co-founder and CEO of American Securities, to unpack how the firm grew from a $71.4 million first fund to $23 billion in AUM without abandoning the investment discipline that got it there. Michael explains how private equity evolved from a sub-$1 billion institutional market into a multi-trillion-dollar industry, why American Securities resisted the temptation to expand into every adjacent asset class, and why seeing more deals matters almost as much as knowing which ones to reject.
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