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Making Billions: The Private Equity Podcast for Fund Managers, Alternative Asset Managers, and Venture Capital Investors

Making Billions: The Private Equity Podcast for Fund Managers, Alternative Asset Managers, and Venture Capital Investors

Author: Ryan Miller

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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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Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 Evan Marks to pull back the curtain on the "hidden interferences" that sabotage professional investors. [THE HOST]: Ryan...
Send us Fan Mail LEARN THE CAPITAL RAISING STRATEGIES AND FRAMEWORKS used by alternative asset professionals: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply 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 Assets for 401(k) Investors," effectively ending the "red ligh...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 Equity, to break down the exact framework for institutionalizing a family office mindset into a scalable investmen...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 wealth has reached $5.5 trillion, with projections hitting $9.5 trillion by 2030. For fund managers, venture capital in...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 investing on this episode of Making Billions. Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTOe79EXLDsROQ0z3YLnu1QQ Connec...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 distribute to your LPs? In this masterclass, Ryan Miller breaks down the architect’s blueprint for survival, exploring how...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 successful private equity and alternative asset management firms. Jason reveals the three major inflection points that shi...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 Ryan Miller breaks down the critical differences between a Stock Purchase vs. Asset Purchase and why your choice of a...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 and how private markets are becoming the new foundation for institutional-grade returns. As public markets shrink and become ...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 clinical: they simply aren't "institutional ready." In t...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 generational founders, in an era where AI has turned technical skills...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 capital raises, deal deadlines, and market volatility was soul-crushing, this ...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 revolutionizing how alternative asset managers raise capital from the priv...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 breaks down the exact architectural blueprints used by the world’s wealthiest d...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 businesses into unstoppable growth machines. Whether you are an ...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" DOWNLOAD "The Dollar Empire Private Markets Playbook" https://go.fundraisecapital.co/dollar-empire-playbook 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 private equity, private credit, and venture capital. This is not theory—it's accou...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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. Dustin, with a portfolio of 30+ single-family homes (90% paid off) a...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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, host Ryan Miller reveals the simple yet universal law that dictates every successf...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" 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 historically dangerous market valuations. The strategy that got generations ...
Send us Fan Mail "RAISE CAPITAL LIKE A LEGEND: https://go.fundraisecapital.co/apply" Are you looking to achieve financial freedom by moving beyond the high-risk startup game? This episode of Making Billions is your battle-tested blueprint for entering the world of private equity and small business acquisition. Host Ryan Miller, breaks down the simple but brutally effective PE process: Buy, Fix, and Sell. Discover the massive, often-overlooked $10 trillion wealth transfer opportunity as ...
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