The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
David Yarrow exemplifies the Pioneer archetype through a career defined by deliberate reinvention and a willingness to enter uncharted territory. In this interview, Yarrow describes spending years quietly constructing a fine art photography business model while still running his hedge fund, treating the transition not as a leap of faith but as a researched strategic move.
“Do you mean I would drink too much? And I would, I think I'd leave it at that, but I don't think I was, I wasn't a happy person. Then you go in the following day to face more hell. And also then if you do, and so many people do get divorced, sadly, but it can, it's about as big a test as you can have.”
“I learned so much. I learned failure, humility, surrounding myself with bright people. And I made a lot of friends. And I think I encourage younger people these days to remember that friendships and the contact, the people you can call are so important, particularly at times like this when you need to be calling people and need to have a…”
“And Netflix instills that as I think you have, America has the most visually spoiled country in the world. Of that, there is, for me, of everything that I've said that some people might find contentious or even be interested in, I think you have by far and away the most extraordinary canvas on which to tell stories of any country in the w…”
“The next day I got redemptions or the next week of $600 million. And that was it. That was it. So something that I was exposed to, there was an exogenous variable effectively to all intents and purposes killed the business. And you asked a question quite a long time ago.”
Money Maze Podcast: “David Yarrow of David Yarrow Photography”
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