The Capital Alliance Podcast is built for fund managers navigating the path from strong returns to lasting firm. Each episode tackles what nobody talks about openly in the industry raising capital beyond your inner circle, building real operational infrastructure, getting in front of allocators who don't already know your name, and making the leap from running a fund to building an institution.
Guests include fund managers, professional investors, and researchers. We dig into what actually gets allocators to write a check, how operators solve the hiring, compliance, and back-office problems that keep small teams stuck, and what separates the funds that scale from the ones that stall. We also go deep on the craft itself, investment philosophy, long-term value creation, portfolio construction, and the ideas shaping how serious capital gets deployed.
From Startup to $16B+ in AUM | JD Gardner of Aptus Capital Advisors
What does it take to go from selling your own home to building an investment firm managing billions in assets? In this episode of the Capital Alliance Podcast, host Ken Majmudar sits down with JD Gardner, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Aptus Capital Advisors, to explore his entrepreneurial journey, the challenges of building an investment management firm, and his unconventional approach to investing and portfolio construction. JD shares how he navigated years of financial struggles, ...
21 Oct 2026
From $3K to $400M: The Mayar Capital Story with Abdulaziz Alnaim
How do you build an investment firm while staying focused on long-term value? In this episode of the Capital Alliance Podcast, host Ken Majmudar sits down with Abdulaziz Alnaim, Founder of Mayar Capital, to explore his entrepreneurial journey, investment philosophy, and the principles behind building a successful investment management business. The conversation explores the importance of disciplined decision-making, thinking like a business owner, identifying long-term opportunities, and navi...
17 Jul 2026
They Sold a Startup to LabCorp, Then Built a Value Fund | Top Mark Capital
Join the Capital Alliance Waiting List Here: https://linkly.link/2ebz3 In this episode of the Capital Alliance Podcast, Ken Majmudar sits down with Mike Nicoletti and Jason Wallace, co-founders of Top Mark Capital, a San Diego-based investment firm running a concentrated generalist fund and a dedicated healthcare & biotech fund. Mike and Jason took an unusual path to fund management: they were operators first. They shared hard-won lessons from building (and shutting down) startups — inc...
30 Jun 2026
From Pro Poker to a $155M Fund: Evan Tindell's Investing Playbook
Join the Capital Alliance Waiting List Here: https://linkly.link/2ebz3 In this episode of the Capital Alliance Podcast, Ken Majmudar sits down with Evan Tindell, founder of Bireme Capital, a long/short equity fund. Evan shares how he built Bireme Capital from a $20 million seed from Ballantyne to over $155 million AUM a rare trajectory in the RIA space. He breaks down his investment philosophy, his approach to short selling, why he believes undervalued stocks are caused by cognitive biases...
30 May 2026
He Built the Research Platform for Event-Driven Investing | Asif Suria
Join the Capital Alliance Waiting List Here: https://linkly.link/2ebz3 In this episode of the Capital Alliance Podcast, we sit down with Asif Suria, Founder and CEO of Inside Arbitrage, a leading research platform focused on event-driven investing strategies. Asif brings a rare combination of deep technical expertise and decades of market experience. Starting his career in technology during the dot-com era, he transitioned into investing through some of the most volatile market cycles—from ...
1 May 2026
Scaling From $125K to $40M AUM: He Left Goldman During a Crisis to Start a Fund - Matthew Peterson
Join the Capital Alliance Waiting List Here: https://linkly.link/2ebz3 In this episode of the Capital Alliance Podcast, we sit down with Matthew Peterson, Managing Partner of Peterson Capital Management and a 25-year veteran of the investing world. Matt is one of the most respected concentrated value investors of his generation. He spent nearly a decade at Goldman Sachs in credit risk consulting across New York and London before walking away to launch his own fund, with just $100,000 of his...
1 Apr 2026
From $1M to $1B AUM: How Saurabh Mukherjea Built His Fund With No Salaries
Join the Capital Alliance Waiting List Here: https://linkly.link/2ebz3 In this episode of the Capital Alliance Podcast, we sit down with Saurabh Mukherjea, the Founder and CIO of Marcellus Investment Managers. Saurabh is one of India’s most influential fund managers, a prolific author of bestsellers like Coffee Can Investing, and a pioneer in democratizing investing for the Indian public. Saurabh shares how he went from being an immigrant kid in suburban London to building the fastest $1 B...
9 Mar 2026
How He Picks Stocks for 500,000 Investors | Pieter Slegers (Compounding Quality)
Join the Capital Alliance Waiting List Here: https://shorturl.at/72hTF In this episode of Capital Alliance, we sit down with Pieter Slegers, the founder of Compounding Quality, one of the world’s fastest-growing stock research newsletters with 480,000+ email subscribers and 500,000+ social media followers. Pieter shares how he went from stocking shelves at 13 and losing 60% on his first investment to building one of the largest investing newsletters in the world all while developing a disci...
9 Mar 2026
How I Built a 20M AUM Investment Firm From Scratch | Gautam Baid | Capital Alliance Podcast
👉 Join The Capital Alliance waiting list here: https://9softj28uhz.typeform.com/to/E... In this episode of the Capital Alliance Podcast, we sit down with Gautam Baid to discuss the real business of building and running an investment fund. We covered how he launched a US-based fund investing in the indian market from scratch. How he structured operations, raised capital, and scaled AUM with a long-term focus on durability. This conversation is designed for fund managers and operators...
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