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Maybe you could tell us a little bit about how you selected our presenters and your vision for this.
I mean for any of you guys who've been involved in Ira Sohn, this is a gentleman that passed away from cancer far too young and his family created this thing called the Sone Foundation and they would host this event and it started in Lincoln Center. And they would ask these managers and so at the time I was like a young venture investor and I got this invite and I showed up in New York at Lincoln Center in 2015 and I said Amazon's gonna be a trillion dollar company. And I was laughed out of the room. David Einhorn who's a friend of mine but who is totally wrong said, I know trillion dollar com
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Anyway, so we wanted to recreate IrisONE and start to get these great managers who are making great picks, making a ton of money for their LPs. They don't get the distribution, and so it's just a chance to, like, get to know some of these names. You don't have to see them on CNBC. You'll see them here more and more often, and we can just get to opine.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the best ideas pitch. Let's meet our contestants.
Anyone should be able to trade any asset anywhere in the world anytime twenty four seven with just an internet connection and a phone in their pocket. We're building a new financial system from the ground up here.
People are gonna wanna own equities and it's gonna be fun in the next couple of years. Companies gonna innovate and create products and applications and that's where hopefully long short managers like us can make a boatload of money.
My fund EcoR One Capital, which is based in San Francisco, thinks of investing in biotech in a slightly different way. We're looking for unfollowed, unloved, misunderstood biotech companies.
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