Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today, I’m very pleased and honored to be speaking with Gaurav Kapadia. I was introducing Gaurav at another event not too long ago, and I think I said something like, he is the most underrated anonymous person I know of, or maybe I could have said, he is the most anonymous underrated person I know of. He is a New Yorker and, has lived here most of his life. He runs an investment firm called XN. I described him recently to someone else as one of our generation’s Warren Buffets. Gaurav has very much shied away from publicity, so we’re very happy to have him on our show. You can think of him as a generational investor, but he does much more than that. He is intricately involved in the affairs of New York City. He is an avid collector of contemporary art. He serves on the boards of trustees of the Mellon Foundation, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Trust of Governors Island, the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, and he’s a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In my introduction to that other event a while back, I think I also said that Gaurav is someone who is unique, that he has this eye for judging quality in a deep sense, that he can apply to cities, to hires, to artworks, and also to investments, and that breadth across the board is something quite remarkable about him. Gaurav, welcome. Thank you, Tyler. I am blushing.…

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