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Rip Reeves shares his journey from arriving in New York with no contacts to becoming a successful CEO and mentor, discussing key investment insights along the way.

Rip Reeves arrived in New York at 18 with a phone book and zero contacts. Forty years later he's the CEO of Institutional Investor, chairs the investments of the LSU endowment, and, almost by accident, became Pablo's mentor in Baton Rouge. In this episode of the Mentors series we talk about luck and how you manufacture it, the market cycles Rip lived through from the inside at Salomon Brothers, the 2008 crisis, the real difference between investing as a retail and an institutional investor, and why choosing the right people matters more than chasing whatever's hot. It all started with an email subject line: "Tiger at the Conference."

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