Family Offices & VC, Ownership of Your Own Career with Field Pickering, Vulpes

"The hardest lesson for me as a leader? I've chosen to be in this position. I chose to build this business. So it starts with me and it ends with me" The family office was initially created to look after the wealth of ultra high net worth families. But today, the modern-day family office does far more than that and is in fact, acting a whole lot more like a venture investor. Today we talk to Field Pickering, COO, General Counsel and Head of Venture Investing at Vulpes, a family office built off the wealth of Stephen Diggle, who founded Artradis Fund Management. Artradis was an Asian long volatility biased multi strategy alternative asset manager, and at its helm grew assets under management from US$4 million to US$4.7 billion at its peak in 2008. --  👊🏻 3 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN: - How to ask and advocate for what you want in your career - The evolution of family offices, particularly in Southeast Asia - How Vulpes is taking a hunting, uninhibited approach to venture and reaping the rewards -- ⏳ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro, what's on tap for this week 02:48 - Why you need to advocate for your own career - Field's journey from an unwilling lawyer turned venture investor 07:13 - Artradis making $3Bn from the Asian Financial Crisis, and how the family office began 09:55 - The growth of family offices in Asia Pacific 12:54 - Dealflow, building pipelines 13:06 - An unfettered approach to venture investing: too early, too late? 15:39 - Vulpes Special Opportunities Fund 20:06 - Portfolio construction and strategies 30:50 - Billion Dollar Questions -- More on Field Pickering: (https://vulpesinvest.com/teams/field-...) -- Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the audacious; featuring the top US-Asia founders, funders and execs. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, we cover it all in the world of venture & business. Learn from the crème de la crème so YOU too, can make #billiondollarmoves — in venture, in business, in life. -- PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://sarah-chen.com/billion-dollar-episodes Watch on Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/sarahchenglobal Join the community: https://sarah-chen.ck.page/billiondollarmoves FOLLOW SARAH: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarahchenglobal Instagram: instagram.com/sarahchenglobal Twitter: twitter.com/sarahchenglobal