Shawn never knew his father, but learned a great deal from his medical doctor grandpa, who raised Shawn with the help of his grandmother and mother. From a very early age, his grandpa taught him that hard work is good, but that hard work and education would get you ahead in life.

Ted chose one of his worst investments ever based on its outcome. In 2002, during his early years at Protégé Partners around the launch of that fund, one of the core investments they were making was in a multi-manager hedge fund portfolio.

In the middle of 2014, Michael was head of the portfolio management team at FEG, a group of talented people who advise institutional investors, and non-profit institutions, which are mostly endowments and foundations.

David’s worst investment occurred during the transition period after he had quit the investment business and was trying to decide what he wanted to do in “retirement”. He had set up then shut down a few websites and had reached the point where he thought that even though he had retired, he could be a trader.

Back in 2017, Mario’s main enterprise was Froothie, an e-commerce business, the area in which he had expertise. But he was very interested in blockchain technology and had been looking at it for a while.