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From Genius to Growing Pains: What Happened to Yale’s Famous Endowment Playbook
Elevate Insights
September 08, 2025
"Be neither a conformist nor a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it"
Happy Monday everyone! Yale once rewrote the rules of investing with a daring strategy that made its endowment the envy of the world, but now that playbook is starting to show cracks. More on this later in the Weekly Topic!
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In other news, OpenAi to develop AI-powered LinkedIn competitor, Anguilla made $39 million from Ai domain name sales last year. American Eagle stock soars on earnings. Klarna seeks $14 billion valuation after delayed IPO. Gold and silver hit record highs.
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Weekly Topic
From Genius to Growing Pains: What Happened to Yale’s Famous Endowment Playbook
🔎 Weekly Highlights
This week’s highlight is from Nate Silver
▼ Summary
Successful risk-takers balance contrarian thinking with evidence, relying on multiple signals rather than one model or philosophy to make robust decisions.
They excel at making quick, good-enough estimates in uncertain environments, understanding that timely action often beats waiting for perfect information.
Borrowing from poker, the best approach to life is to “raise or fold,” meaning take bold action or walk away, since passivity often wastes opportunities and resources.
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📬 Weekly Trivia
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Q. Which color is officially associated with Yale University?
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