Conversations about business building — without the pretense
It's Not Magic is a podcast that gets right to the useful stuff. We talk to founders and industry leaders and get them to explain, in plain English, what they do and how they do it.
Building a business is a lot of things, but…It’s Not Magic.
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Meet the Host
David Stiepleman is a Co-Founder, Partner and Co-President of Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm with over $140b in assets under management*.
David has been a cross-border corporate lawyer, senior executive, and business builder for over 25 years, starting and running businesses and representing clients globally. He helped lead Sixth Street’s record-breaking investment in Bay FC, the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) franchise representing the San Francisco Bay Area. David serves as a Director of Bay FC and of Sixth Street Specialty Lending (NYSE:TSLX), a publicly traded business development company.
David is the founding board chair of the San Francisco Downtown Development Corp.; serves on the board of StoryCorps; teaches private investment funds law at UC Law San Francisco; and has been a writing tutor at Mount Tamalpais College, an accredited liberal arts college inside San Quentin State Prison. He is a Founding LP and strategic advisor to Westbound Equity Partners.
David graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. in French and political science and received a J.D. from Columbia Law School.