In this week’s episode, I am joined by Anthony Scaramucci! Founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio.

Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman in 2001. Earlier, he worked in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs & Co.

In 2016, he was ranked #85 in Worth Magazine’s Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young’s New York Financial Services “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award. Anthony is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a board member of the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation.

In 2022, Scaramucci was ranked #47 in Cointelegraph’s Top 100 Influencers in Crypto and Blockchain.

Scaramucci served on President Donald J. Trump’s 16-person Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee, and in 2017 briefly served as Chief Strategy Officer of the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank and White House Communications Director. He is the author of five book, including his newest book “From Wall Street To The White House and Back”!

Key Points

• Post-truth dangers in today's America

• The impact of demographic shifts in voting

• Truth and lies on both sides of politics

• Boldness as a key to personal success

Best Quotes

01:46 - 01:59

• "We're in a completely unique environment. Sometimes I, I wake up in the morning recently, and I'm like, I thought politics were, were something that, you know, I know it changes all the time, but sometimes it just changes rapidly."

08:07 - 08:13

• "So, because not a lot of people want to tell you the truth. They want to go with, oh, geez, can't say anything bad about Trump. It could hurt my business."

14:51 - 14:59

• "We should want policies that are not hard, left or hard, right? But that are right or wrong for the society as opposed to hard left or hard, right?" 34:13 - 34:23

• "And so, so what I'm, what I'm saying to people, don't put your lifestyle on me. I won't put my lifestyle on you. But the left wants to do that. The hard right wants to do that."