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Making Billions with Ryan Miller — The Wolf of Alt Street — is the definitive top 2% ranked podcast for fund managers who want to raise capital and gain a competitive edge in private markets.Are you a fund manager trying to raise capital? Do you want to know how the top 0.01% in finance actually build and scale their funds?THE HOSTRyan Miller — fund manager, capital strategist, and former CFO turned angel investor in technology and energy — delivers the unfiltered playbook serious fund managers use to raise capital and compete at the highest level across:· Capital Raising & LP Relations· PE Deal Sourcing & Acquisition Strategy·...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Private-market strategy becomes practical through candid conversations about diligence, fundraising, leverage, founder assessment, and the boundaries of a firm's expertise.
Ryan Miller keeps returning to the decisions behind private-market capital: how managers choose investments, raise money, define a firm's edge, and control risk.
Ryan Miller's guest has a question for your next deal: who could you speed-dial to diligence it?
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A practical fund conversation about balancing liquidity, durability, and LP trust through clear communication.
The episode stays close to a familiar venture tradeoff: how to balance exits, durability, and liquidity without letting the fund turn opaque. Its strongest point is the case for commercializing-stage companies that already have revenue and can use fresh capital to move faster,…
A clear case for why illiquidity can be the price of long-term private-market upside.
Tony Davidoff and Ryan Miller spend the episode working through the fault lines under the 60-40 mindset and make a solid case for why private markets still belong in portfolio construction.
A practical look at how fund structure, liquidity planning, and investor messaging shape capital raises.
The episode takes a practical look at the mechanics behind fund launches, with attention on liquidity, product structure, and investor communication.
Family-business PE framed through alignment, low leverage, and hands-on diligence.
The episode treats a family-business sale less like a transaction and more like a test of alignment, with Andy making the case that private equity works best when sponsors behave like long-term owners.
A clear look at why the old 60/40 playbook no longer fits.
Making Billions treats the 60/40 portfolio as a model shaped by a different market, when falling rates and cheap capital made the balance between growth and defense look more straightforward.
Capital raising works better when the investor is understood before the ask.
The episode makes a plain but useful point: capital raising goes better when the investor is understood before the pitch starts. The strongest advice is to look at where someone has invested, what kind of experience they have had, what they liked or disliked, and how they think…
A blunt look at AI dealmaking that favors defensibility over easy-build hype.
This episode looks at how investors at Martell Ventures sort AI hype from real defensibility. It leans on practical signals: if a product is easy to build, it may also be easy to copy, while deep domain expertise and hard-won industry knowledge read as much stronger signs.
A blunt reminder that leverage helps only until it starts working against you.
Ryan Miller opens with a cautionary tale about buying a house, taking bad advice, and finding out fast how badly weak planning can go. The rest of the discussion stays on leverage, debt, cash flow, refinancing, and the habit of paying properties down so the payment burden keeps…
Demetri Kofinas interviews specialists on geopolitics, energy markets, AI, and finance at length.
BBC's daily business show, from toy-industry founders to Anthropic's Pentagon standoff.
The host argues that peace is not the reward for success but the essential strategy for ambitious fund managers and investors.
This segment discusses the strategic choice in private equity between buying a company's stock for continuity and buying its assets to avoid inheriting past decisions and risks.
This episode segment reveals the systematic strategies used by top billion-dollar funds to consistently generate high returns across all market conditions, focusing on three key levers and common investor mistakes.
Ryan Miller opens by saying the show is for people who want practical help raising capital.
Ryan Miller opens with a plain promise: if the goal is to raise money, this show is here to help make that go better.
Jason gives a direct account of how Skyline grew from student rentals into a roughly $10 billion real assets platform.
Ryan Miller talks with Tony Davidoff about private markets, portfolio construction, and goals-based investing.
The episode looks at how private equity teams think about leverage buyouts when rates are high.
His father lost everything in a Ponzi scheme - that devastating loss became the fuel for a new kind of investing.
Ryan Miller and Jeff Sardi argue that the 60-40 portfolio worked during the long decline in interest rates from the early 1980s to 2022, but that inflation and higher rates have changed the rules.
Ryan Miller sits down with Cooper from Martell Ventures to talk about how top investors cut through AI hype and spot what is actually worth funding.
That capital is patient, flexible, and actively looking for exceptional fund managers.
Ryan Miller frames private equity as a simple buy-fix-sell process and says millions of profitable small businesses under $5 million are coming up for grabs, with baby boomer owners controlling over 40% of US small businesses.
Ryan Miller opens by treating emotions as a real tool in investing and fundraising.
Ryan Miller opens with a blunt warning: leverage can wreck investor returns fast when the market turns.
Host Ryan Miller interviews Jeremy Kranz on how China has led in AI commercialization for years, with examples like TikTok and DJI, and discusses emerging black swans like tokenization that could reshape capital markets.
The episode argues that private equity managers face a "DPI liquidity trap" in 2026, citing Bain’s 2025 global private equity report and its $3.2 trillion backlog of unsold companies.
Ryan Miller turns valuation into homework.
Maria Palma, general partner at Freestyle VC, says AI has changed venture ownership, with founders able to raise less capital, hire fewer people, and still move faster than older software companies.
Christina Simmons says Overwater Ventures screens founders by psychology, not just pitch decks, and treats the founder as the most important element behind a billion-dollar business.
The episode argues that U.S.
What every VC is secretly looking for but won't tell you: founder's unfair advantage
Ryan Miller opens on one clean idea: emotions can be a real due diligence tool.
Andy starts with alignment.
PHL scaled from $600K to $900M by focusing on aligned investors, investing personal capital, building track record, and staying patient.
Comprehensive guide to building and structuring family offices at every wealth level from 1-5 million through 500+ million net worth.
The conversation starts with liquidity because that is where the real risk lives.
Ryan Miller provides a 100-day playbook for private equity CEOs to succeed in their first days on the job.
Host Ryan Miller interviews real estate investor Lane about strategies to build passive income and scale from a first rental to billions.
Host Ryan Miller interviews Josh Chodnowitz, CEO of Fundify, about democratizing access to private venture capital deals for non-accredited investors.
Host Ryan Miller interviews Andrew Einhorn about LevelFields, an AI platform that automates investment research for traders and fund managers.