Family Offices & VC, Ownership of Your Own Career with Field Pickering, Vulpes

"The hardest lesson for me as a leader? I've chosen to be in this position. I chose to build this business. So it starts with me and it ends with me"

👊🏻 3 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:

- How to ask and advocate for what you want in your career

- The evolution of family offices, particularly in Southeast Asia

- How Vulpes is taking a hunting, uninhibited approach to venture and reaping the rewards

⏳ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro, what's on tap for this week

02:48 - Why you need to advocate for your own career - Field's journey from an unwilling lawyer turned venture investor

07:13 - Artradis making $3Bn from the Asian Financial Crisis, and how the family office began

09:55 - The growth of family offices in Asia Pacific

12:54 - Dealflow, building pipelines

13:06 - An unfettered approach to venture investing: too early, too late?

15:39 - Vulpes Special Opportunities Fund

20:06 - Portfolio construction and strategies

30:50 - Billion Dollar Questions

About Field Pickering

Field Pickering | Vulpes

Field is the Managing Partner of Vulpes Ventures and launched its first venture fund in the early days of the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020.

Previously he was the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for Vulpes Investment Management. Field joined Vulpes in 2015. Field has been in Singapore since 2011 and began his career working on a Wall Street sales desk before getting his law degree and working as an M&A associate for an international law firm. He has a degree in History from the University of Colorado-Boulder and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law.