Making Billions: The Private Equity Podcast for Fund Managers, Startup Founders, and Venture Capital Investors Ryan Miller

Send us a Text Message.Hey, welcome to another episode of Making Billions, I'm your host Ryan Miller and today I have my dear friend Vernon Beckford. Vernon is the CEO of a debt fund called Diversified Lending Solutions. After graduating from both Columbia and Harvard, Vernon has spent his 15 year career honing his craft at places like Credit Suisse and Global Atlantic Financial Group, where he nailed it in the structure finance group. So what this means is that Vernon understands credit mark...

Send us a Text Message.Hey, welcome to another episode of Making Billions. I'm your host, Ryan Miller and today I have my dear friend Kevin Fu. Kevin is the founder and CEO at Repool, it's a fintech company helping emerging hedge fund managers to launch, scale and manage their investment funds. As a 2021 Y Combinator graduate he's raised capital from all the elite investors like Brexit, Mercury, Flexpoint, Matrix, and more. So what this means is that Kevin understands how to launch and scale ...

Send us a Text Message.Hey, welcome to another episode of Making Billions, I'm your host, Ryan Miller and today I have my dear friend Elaine Stageberg. Elaine is the owner of Black Swan Real Estate where she manages a portfolio of get this $300 million in assets under management. Black Swan has delivered exceptional returns to hundreds of passive investors through their unique investor focused private equity funds. So what this means is that investors in Elaine's funds enjoy no sponsor fees w...

Send us a Text Message.Hey, welcome to another episode of Making Billions, I'm your host, Ryan Miller, and today I have my dear friend, Trevor Welch. Trevor is an award-winning fund manager in venture capital, hedge funds, and private alternative investment strategies. As a former Goldman Sachs, private banking manager and money manager for the royal family, he's earned his place as one of the world's top 100 Finance leaders in 2023.So what this means is that Trevor has entered God mode in pr...

Send us a Text Message.Hey, welcome to another episode of Making Billions, I'm your host Ryan Miller and today I have my dear friend Sal Buscemi. Sal is a former investment banker from Goldman, now the managing general partner at Brahmin Partners, as well as the author of four books on finance and investing. This guy has been featured in Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, CBS New York, and more. So what this means is Sal is a capital raising animal and he's about to give you a masterclass on ...

Send us a Text Message.Hey, welcome to another episode of Making Billions, I'm your host, Ryan Miller and today I have my dear friend Michael Fillios.Michael is the author of two private equity books: Tech Debt 2.0 and Tech Equity. He's also the founder and CEO of IT ALLY, a private equity advisory firm that helps you private equity carnivores to unlock unseen value and avoid the unseen liabilities in the companies that you buy and sell. So what this means is that Michael is about to teach yo...