Ronald Cohen
The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Ronald Cohen emerges in this interview as a quintessential Pioneer, having built entirely new fields rather than joining existing ones. He co-founded Apax at 26 into a European venture capital vacuum, explicitly stating he had to 'build the field' alongside the firm.
“What's exciting about entering a new field is that you do have to build the field. You have to prosecutize for it, explain it, bring examples of how it's worked in the United States and why it should work in Britain.”
On founding Apax and venture capitalundated
“The name of the game is changing now. It's shifting from delivering risk and return to delivering risk and return and impact.”
On the evolution of investingundated
“It doesn't make sense to create harm with 95% of your assets and try to create good with 5% from the return that you've got from those assets.”
On foundation endowment contradictionsundated
Money Maze Podcast: “Sir Ronald Cohen: From Venture Capital and Private Equity to Impact investing, A conversation with the man who leads the charge!”
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