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Published · transcript-backedGaurav Kapadia: belief
10 Dec 2025 Conversations with Tyler Gaurav Kapadia on New York City, Investing, and Contemporary Art
“If we all worked in individual offices, I think you end up with a much more complicated way to analyze companies, much more siloed.”
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- Gaurav Kapadia
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- 10 Dec 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…People claim that’s bad. I’ve never been persuaded, but defend an open-plan office. Why is it good? I always knew it was going to be good. We’ve had one forever. I think it’s particularly good today, in where investing is going. The world is way more interconnected than ever. Very simply, who would have thought of a world — 5 years ago, 10 years ago — where you have to have a conversation about software, power, and semiconductors all together? The open plan allows the organization to basically use the Socratic method, talk to one another. Create sparks of curiosity that we can pull the thread on. If we all worked in individual offices, I think you end up with a much more complicated way to analyze companies, much more siloed. I think we as a firm — but the world at large — is becoming much more connected. For a brief while, you retired from investing, right? Then you came back. What’s that story?…
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