How to Read a Sponsor's Track Record Honestly
Separating skill from a rising tide.
Every sponsor's deck shows a wall of green. The job of a serious LP is to figure out how much of that green the sponsor actually created versus inherited from a decade of falling rates.
Attribution Is Everything
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