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
Episodes
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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 ...
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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...
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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 Private...
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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."
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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 investi...
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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 distrib...
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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 most succes...
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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.
In this masterclass on deal structuring, host Ry...
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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 brok...
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DOWNLOAD "The Institutional Readiness Checklist": https://go.fundraisecapital.co/institutional-readiness-checklist
Are you struggling to bridge the gap between retail investors and massive institutional allocators?
Most fund managers believe they are getting rejected because of their track record or IRR, but the truth is far more...
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Stop picking founders the old school way—it’s the fastest path to investment failure in 2026.
In this episode of Making Billions, Ryan Miller sits down with Joe Alalou, General Partner at Daring Ventures, to reveal the new blueprint for Pre-Seed and Venture Capital success.
Joe shares the "Daring Ventures" filter for identifying g...
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DOWNLOAD "The UVE Framework Guide": https://go.fundraisecapital.co/uve-framework
In this landmark 200th episode of Making Billions, Ryan Miller reveals why the elite top 0.01% of fund managers don't just hustle harder—they master their internal state to dominate the external market.
If you’ve ever felt like the chaos of capit...
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Are you looking to scale your investment firm or launch a high-performance private equity fund?
In this episode of Making Billions, host Ryan Miller sits down with Kim Flynn, President of XA Investments, a leading firm with $1 Billion AUM. Together, they discuss the interval fund market and closed-end fund structures that are currently revol...
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DOWNLOAD "The Family Office Blueprint": http://go.fundraisecapital.co/familyofficeblueprint
Are you ready to transition from individual success to building a multi-generational legacy?
Stop building wealth for a single lifetime and start engineering a legacy that lasts for centuries. In this episode of Making Billions, Ryan Miller b...
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Are you ready to discover how top-tier private equity firms triple the value of companies in just five years?
In this episode of Making Billions, Ryan Miller sits down with Eliot Kerlin, Co-Founder and CEO of Broadwing Capital, to lift the veil on the high-powered operational strategies used by institutional investors to transform ordinary ...
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DOWNLOAD "The Dollar Empire Private Markets Playbook"
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The financial world is fixated on the wrong metrics.
While the media screams about US debt and the trade deficit, these perceived weaknesses are actually the hidden engines driving trillions of dollars directly into priva...
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Your Real Estate Strategy might be broken!
In this explosive episode of Making Billions, host Ryan Miller dives deep with Dustin Heiner, real estate investor, as he shares his journey from being scammed by a property manager to developing a proprietary system that treats real estate not as an asset class, but as a robust, automated business.
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Why do some fund managers and startup founders close oversubscribed fundraising rounds in days, while others chase investors for months with nothing but "maybes"? The secret to raising capital successfully is not just your IRR, deck, or data room—it's mastering The Fundraise Formula.
In this powerful episode of Making Billions...
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For decades, the 60/40 portfolio—a simple mix of 60% stocks and 40% bonds—was the undisputed king of investment strategy. It was a reliable engine for wealth creation during an era of falling interest rates and cheap capital.
That era is over.
Today, we face a new reality: persistent structural inflation, crushing US debt levels, and historic...
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