Transcript
Introduction
Patrick
My guest today is Dinakar Singh. Dinakar is the founder and CEO of Axon, the family office successor to TPG-Axon, which was a successful global long-short hedge fund. We wanted to share his story on Father’s Day to honor the person and the dad that Dinakar is. He shares one of the most extraordinary stories at the intersection of finance and medicine that I’ve ever encountered.
This conversation explores the highest stakes investment themes; timing, concentrated conviction, exceptional team-building, and deploying resources towards outcomes that matter most. I want to let him tell the story of the remarkable journey that he’s been on, to cure a disease called SMA that so deeply affected his family. Please enjoy my conversation with Dinakar Singh.
Dinakar's Story
Patrick
So Dinakar, I'm so excited to tell your entire story. It's one of the most unique, moving and incredible stories I've encountered in investing and I guess in life more generally. I was thinking about how to ask about it to kick us off and maybe the appropriate way is just to ask you: why did you name your firm TPG-Axon?