Making Billions: The Private Equity Podcast for Fund Managers, Alternative Asset Managers, and Venture Capital Investors
Making Billions with Ryan Miller — The Wolf of Alt Street — is the definitive top 2% ranked podcast for fund managers who want to raise capital and gain a competitive edge in private markets. Are you a fund manager trying to raise capital? Do you want to know how the top 0.01% in finance actually build and scale their funds? THE HOST Ryan Miller — fund manager, capital strategist, and former CFO turned angel investor in technology and energy — delivers the unfiltered playbook serious fund managers use to raise capital and compete at the highest level across: · Capital Raising & LP Relations · PE Deal Sourcing & Acquisition Strategy · Value Creation & Exit Strategies · Private Credit, Venture Capital & AI in Fund Management THE SHOW Making Billions: The Private Equity Podcast for Fund Managers, Alternative Asset Managers, and venture capital investors alternate between two powerful formats every week: Expert interviews with top fund managers, family office allocators, institutional investors, and alternative asset operators who have done it at the highest level — and Making Billions Academy episodes where Ryan delivers solo masterclasses teaching the exact finance principles and capital raising frameworks serious fund managers need to compete and win in private markets. New episodes every week. No theory. No fluff. Just the playbook. This is the show your competitors hope you never find. How do you raise capital for a fund? 👉 https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply For educational purposes only. Not financial, legal, or investment advice. Not a solicitation. Full disclaimer here: https://making-billions.com/disclaimer
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DOWNLOAD The 23 Cognitive Biases: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/100m-blueprint-860536-648168-166304-426463-122119
This episode is brought to you by Reef Pass | Serial Acquisition Investors: Reef Pass Investors has spent the last 10 years focused on partnering with founders to launch and bu...
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This episode is brought to you by Reef Pass | Serial Acquisition Investors: Reef Pass Investors has spent the last 10 years focused on partnering with founders to launch and build long-term holding companies, and has a proven track record doing exactly that.
To reach out to Re...
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DOWNLOAD The Sovereign Corporate Scorecard: A step-by-step playbook to identify infrastructure monopolies, asymmetric opportunities, empire-building companies before wall street: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/sovereign-corporate-scorecasd-playbook-352837
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This episode of Making Billions with Ryan Miller & Aman Verjee delivers the secondary market playbook that gives managers a structural advantage over every fund ignoring this shift.
How do venture secondaries solve LP liquidity problems in 2026?
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DOWNLOAD The Reg D Decision Playbook: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/reg-d-decision-playbook. The step-by-step playbook to choosing between 506(b) and 506(c), avoiding costly compliance mistakes, and structuring your fund the right way from day one.
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Unlocking Private Equity Alpha requires more than just capital; it requires a CEO who can double industry benchmarks.
How to achieve Private Equity Alpha through CEO performance?
In this episode of Making Billions, Ryan Miller sits down with Taavo Godtfredsen and Samantha All...
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DOWNLOAD: How to find LP Investors Playbook: The 4 Stage Roadmap: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/how-to-find-lp-investors
In this episode of Making Billions, Ryan Miller provides the exact tactical blueprint to scale from 0 to a $100 million fund without wasting five years of your life.
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This episode of Making Billions with Ryan Miller and Christopher Zook breaks down 5 market-beating themes: GP stakes, professional sports, the $100T energy transition, space commercialization, and AI plumbing.
How can investors find non-correlated returns when the top 10 stocks d...
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DOWNLOAD The Complete Playbook on How To Start a Fund: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/how-to-start-a-fund
In this episode of Making Billions, Ryan Miller explains why a fund is a scaling vehicle, not a launching vehicle, emphasizing that the $100 million equity floor is the minimum threshol...
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How do I identify 'value leaks' during an M&A audit?
This episode of Making Billions with Ryan Miller outlines a professional framework for conducting a Quality of Earnings (QofE) assessment, focusing on the transition from cash-basis to accrual accounting and the elimination of "invisi...
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DOWNLOAD The 90 Day, 100 Million Dollar Raise Blueprint: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/90-day-100m-raise-blueprint
This episode of Making Billions with Ryan Miller provides the verified, step-by-step 90-day raise system that utilizes recent regulatory shifts and founder psychology to compr...
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Wall Street spends billions on market data, yet almost nothing on the one "edge" that actually separates fund titans from the rest: the biology of decision-making.
In this episode of Making Billions, host Ryan Miller is joined by 25-year Wall Street veteran and elite performance coach...
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DOWNLOAD: The 401 K Access Roadmap For Alternative Fund Managers: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/401k-access-roadmap
Is your fund missing the biggest regulatory shift in a decade?
On August 7, 2025, President Trump signed the historic Executive Order "Democratizing Access to Alternative Asse...
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How to Institutionalize a Family Office Mindset in Private Equity
Ever wondered how a $1 billion private equity firm protects family legacies while delivering market-beating returns?
In this episode of Making Billions, host Ryan Miller interviews Andy Unanue, Managing Partner of AUA Pr...
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DOWNLOAD The Family Office LP Playbook for 2026: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/family-office-lp-playbook
What is the best way to raise capital from family offices in 2026?
The answer lies in transitioning from a "deal jockey" to a "solution architect."
As of 2026, global family office ...
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How do you spot billion-dollar founders?
Ryan Miller (Angel Investor) and Kristina Simmons (Overwater Ventures) identify the "Answer-First" framework—evaluating founder psychology and commercialization potential over traditional pitch decks—as the key to elite early-stage ...
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DOWNLOAD The DPI Liquidity Execution Pack: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/dpi-execution-pack
The Private Equity market in 2026 is facing a massive DPI liquidity trap with a $3.2 trillion backlog of unsold companies.
Are you a fund manager sitting on unrealized gains but zero cash to di...
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How do you turn a single student rental house into a $10 billion real estate empire?
In this episode of Making Billions, host Ryan Miller sits down with Jason Castellan, the Co-Founder and CEO of Skyline Group of Companies, to deconstruct the journey of building one of Canada’s ...
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DOWNLOAD: A decision matrix on Stock versus Asset Purchases at https://go.fundraisecapital.co/stock-vs-asset
Stop buying companies like a gambler and start engineering your private equity deals for maximum protection and predictable outcomes.
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Is the traditional 60/40 portfolio officially dead?
In this episode of Making Billions, host Ryan Miller sits down with Tony Davidow, Senior Alternatives Investment Strategist at the Franklin Templeton Institute, to deconstruct why traditional asset allocation is structurally broken...
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