Ted Seides
Host of the Capital Allocators podcast (500+ episodes) · Founder of Capital Allocators LLC; allocator-side institutional investing
“Capital Allocators... over 500 conversations with the best Capital Allocators in the world.”
“when I was planning to launch a fund earlier this year, the obvious monkey is how easy is it going to be? Raised the money. And some of the pedestals are getting your legal docs done and all the back office stuff... I built all these pedestals before I tackled the monkey.”
Ted Seides
One-line summary: Institutional-investing podcaster and allocator. Capital Allocators is the canonical interview series for the way professional PMs and ICs articulate theses out loud — useful here as a calibration target for decision-making psychology in capital allocation.
What they're known for
Host of Capital Allocators (500+ episodes). Allocator-side interviewer; early reader of Duke's Quit (she credits his chapter-summary suggestion). Applies monkeys-and-pedestals to his own fund-launch sequence.
Why they matter to psychology
Not a theorist — a practitioner-host who surfaces how professional allocators talk about judgment, and who can instantiate Duke's tools on his own decisions (fund-launch pedestals before the raise).
Said
Speaker-attributed claims extracted from diarized sources. Each bullet mirrors one entry in quotes: frontmatter — keep them in sync.
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On investment-mistake-taxonomy:
"Capital Allocators... over 500 conversations with the best Capital Allocators in the world." — 2026-05-18-podcast-capital-allocators-making-mistakes-josh-steiner-ep-502 (2026-05-18)
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"when I was planning to launch a fund earlier this year, the obvious monkey is how easy is it going to be? Raised the money. And some of the pedestals are getting your legal docs done and all the back office stuff... I built all these pedestals before I tackled the monkey." — 2026-08-03-podcast-capital-allocators-best-of-decision-making-annie-duke-2022 (2022)
Sources
- 2026-05-18-podcast-capital-allocators-making-mistakes-josh-steiner-ep-502
- 2026-08-03-podcast-capital-allocators-best-of-decision-making-annie-duke-2022