How I Invest with David Weisburd

After more than 400 conversations with investors, founders, CIOs, and capital allocators managing over $10 trillion, the tables finally turn.

In this special episode, Curtis Pierce, Co-Founder of Weisburd Pierce and the How I Invest podcast, interviews host David Weisburd about the biggest ideas that have permanently changed his thinking.

David argues that the greatest compounding force isn't capital. It's relationships, reputation, access to information, and the ability to surround yourself with excellence early in your career. From venture capital and family offices to LP-GP relationships and organizational culture, he shares the principles shaping how Weisburd Pierce invests and builds enduring partnerships.

Most investors spend their lives searching for more ideas. Anthony Pompliano thinks the real money comes from finding the rare idea and refusing to let go.

Across public markets, private markets, Bitcoin, startups, and careers, Anthony argues that value follows power laws: a tiny number of companies, people, and decisions drive almost everything. The hard part is not effort. It is recognizing durable asymmetry early, pressing your winners harder, and resisting the temptation to sell simply because liquidity is available.

The deeper lesson is scarcity. Great companies are scarce. Great investors are scarce. Great people are scarce. And when you find one, the job is not to constantly rotate into something new. The job is to understand what you own, build conviction, and let compounding do the work.

Most investors assume that once a venture firm reaches $43 billion in assets under management, the real opportunities shift toward writing larger checks.

Yuri Sagilov believes the opposite.

General Catalyst continues to push deeper into seed because that's where investment themes are born, founder relationships are formed, and category-defining companies are first recognized. Rather than optimizing for larger deployments, the firm optimizes for ownership, conviction, and seeing the future before everyone else. It's also why General Catalyst intentionally removed signaling risk from its seed strategy, giving founders confidence that early backing won't become a disadvantage later. Throughout our conversation, Yuri explains why AI-native founders think differently, why the best venture firms remain generalists, and why the next decade of venture may look very different from the last.

What separates the venture investors who consistently outperform from those who simply get lucky?

In this episode, I sit down with Miguel Luina, Co-Head of Global Venture Capital at Hamilton Lane, to discuss how one of the world's largest private markets investors evaluates venture managers, constructs portfolios, and thinks about the future of innovation investing. Miguel explains why venture and growth have become an essential allocation for institutional investors, how LPs distinguish skill from luck, and why conviction investing, secondaries, and portfolio construction may be the biggest drivers of long-term returns.

What if the greatest edge in venture capital isn't having the biggest fund—but building the strongest relationships?

In this episode, I sit down with Elizabeth Weil, Founder and Managing Partner of Scribble Ventures, to discuss how emerging venture firms can outperform by staying focused, collaborative, and relentlessly founder-centric. Elizabeth shares how she built Scribble into a $280 million venture platform by backing exceptional founders at the earliest stages, why venture is fundamentally a network effects business, and why staying authentic has become one of her greatest competitive advantages.