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How Applying the Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transformed Alpine
Leadership Graham Weaver 3/11/25 Leadership Graham Weaver 3/11/25

How Applying the Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transformed Alpine

Making this one change was revolutionary for Alpine; we quintupled our capacity, cut our time on deals that didn’t close by 90%, and started winning the deals we wanted most.

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What Most People Get Wrong About Money
Self Discovery Graham Weaver 1/16/25 Self Discovery Graham Weaver 1/16/25

What Most People Get Wrong About Money

Money can buy happiness, just not in the way you think.

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Rearview and Windshield: A Year-End Practice to Better Navigate the Road Ahead
Self Discovery Graham Weaver 12/23/24 Self Discovery Graham Weaver 12/23/24

Rearview and Windshield: A Year-End Practice to Better Navigate the Road Ahead

As 2024 draws to a close, it’s a great opportunity to reflect on what the year brought into our lives and try to better understand how our experiences have shaped us.

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What Meditation Taught Me About Suffering (And Joy!)
Self Discovery Graham Weaver 8/15/24 Self Discovery Graham Weaver 8/15/24

What Meditation Taught Me About Suffering (And Joy!)

I have been meditating regularly for several years, and while it always helped me relax, focus, and be a bit less reactive in my normal life, I wouldn’t have called it “life-changing” — until one day in March 2020.

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Stanford GSB Last Lecture 2024 - How To Live Your Life At Full Power
Self Discovery, Leadership Graham Weaver 7/23/24 Self Discovery, Leadership Graham Weaver 7/23/24

Stanford GSB Last Lecture 2024 - How To Live Your Life At Full Power

I was honored with the Stanford Graduate Business School’s 2024 MBA Distinguished Teaching Award and shared and gave a speech about some of the life lessons teaching has taught me.

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What Teaching Taught Me: Lessons From 22 Years At Stanford GSB
Self Discovery, Leadership Graham Weaver 6/28/24 Self Discovery, Leadership Graham Weaver 6/28/24

What Teaching Taught Me: Lessons From 22 Years At Stanford GSB

I was honored with the Stanford Graduate Business School’s 2024 MBA Distinguished Teaching Award and shared and gave a speech about some of the life lessons teaching has taught me.

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The Wildly Asymmetric Impact of Diet and Nutrition
Self Discovery Graham Weaver 4/22/24 Self Discovery Graham Weaver 4/22/24

The Wildly Asymmetric Impact of Diet and Nutrition

If you are looking for the smallest and quickest changes you can make to your lifestyle that will yield the largest impact on how you look — and more important, how you feel — you may be well served to focus first on your diet.

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Use These 3 Principles To Unlock Your Company’s Growth
Leadership Graham Weaver 3/7/24 Leadership Graham Weaver 3/7/24

Use These 3 Principles To Unlock Your Company’s Growth

Over more than two decades at Alpine, we’ve found that the three principles that yield organic growth can be summarized in just six words: Ideal Customer, Irresistible Offer, and Operation Crush.

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Why Dopamine Makes Good Habits Difficult— and What To Do About It.
Graham Weaver 1/1/24 Graham Weaver 1/1/24

Why Dopamine Makes Good Habits Difficult— and What To Do About It.

As we kick off 2024, many of us want to create new routines, stop bad habits and create new goals or resolutions. There is one factor, more than any other, that will help you succeed or stand in your way - dopamine.

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Three Principles Of Leadership
Leadership, Self Discovery Graham Weaver 12/14/23 Leadership, Self Discovery Graham Weaver 12/14/23

Three Principles Of Leadership

I delivered a keynote speech at the 10th Annual Booth-Kellogg Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Conference, about the three principles of leadership and what people typically get wrong.

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How a Sleep Specialist Cured My Insomnia — and Cleared Up My Misconceptions About Sleep
Self Discovery Rebecca Pratt 11/28/23 Self Discovery Rebecca Pratt 11/28/23

How a Sleep Specialist Cured My Insomnia — and Cleared Up My Misconceptions About Sleep

I was stuck in a cycle of sleepless nights and tired days, until a sleep specialist taught me the science behind restful sleep, and how to incorporate strong sleep habits into my daily routine.

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Three Unexpected Life Lessons Learned at a Taylor Swift Concert
Self Discovery, Current Events Graham Weaver 8/31/23 Self Discovery, Current Events Graham Weaver 8/31/23

Three Unexpected Life Lessons Learned at a Taylor Swift Concert

Taylor is an artist, one of the best in the world in her industry, at the very top of her game. I would question how anyone could walk out of the concert not feeling inspired, even a 51-year-old guy working in private equity.

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How to Live an Asymmetric Life
Leadership, Self Discovery Graham Weaver 7/18/23 Leadership, Self Discovery Graham Weaver 7/18/23

How to Live an Asymmetric Life

I was honored to give a Last Lecture for the Stanford Graduate School of Business Class of 2023. Read on for a summary of the message I shared, or watch the entire lecture video.

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Fund IX: Continuing Our Path of PeopleFirst Investing
Leadership Graham Weaver 7/12/23 Leadership Graham Weaver 7/12/23

Fund IX: Continuing Our Path of PeopleFirst Investing

As Alpine Investors closes on its ninth fund with $4.5B in capital commitments in an oversubscribed process, I reflect on this pivotal moment in Alpine history.

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22 Years of Hiring Taught Us 3 Surprising Lessons
Leadership Graham Weaver 5/25/23 Leadership Graham Weaver 5/25/23

22 Years of Hiring Taught Us 3 Surprising Lessons

Here’s how our team used what we learned to build a best-in-class hiring function that supercharged our growth

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What I Learned From the 5 Best Business Books I’ve Ever Read
Current Events, Leadership Graham Weaver 3/23/23 Current Events, Leadership Graham Weaver 3/23/23

What I Learned From the 5 Best Business Books I’ve Ever Read

I reflect on five of the best business books I’ve ever read, and what they taught me about life and work.

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Why Greatness Comes From The Bottom Of The Bucket
Self Discovery Graham Weaver 3/2/23 Self Discovery Graham Weaver 3/2/23

Why Greatness Comes From The Bottom Of The Bucket

True greatness comes from the bottom of the bucket and over the years, it has become clear to me that customer acquisition is actually the second most important part of the revenue picture.

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Why I Gave Up Drinking Alcohol
Self Discovery Graham Weaver 1/19/23 Self Discovery Graham Weaver 1/19/23

Why I Gave Up Drinking Alcohol

Alcohol is so mainstream — and so closely associated with celebration — that we often forget it is a depressant. Read on to understand why l gave up drinking alcohol, and why I’m rarely tempted to drink anymore.

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Four Reasons You Likely Won’t Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions (And How to Change That!)
Self Discovery Graham Weaver 1/2/23 Self Discovery Graham Weaver 1/2/23

Four Reasons You Likely Won’t Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions (And How to Change That!)

About 90% of people fail to keep their New Year’s resolutions. Here are four of the top reasons people fail to keep their resolutions and how to change that.

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Five Things I Learned From Posting On TikTok (And Why I Continue to Post)
Current Events, Self Discovery Graham Weaver 12/20/22 Current Events, Self Discovery Graham Weaver 12/20/22

Five Things I Learned From Posting On TikTok (And Why I Continue to Post)

I’ve learned a lot through my TikTok experience. Read on for my five biggest takeaways.

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