Mala Gaonkar’s SurgoCap Partners experienced a rapid ascent, tripling its assets to $6 billion within three years of its 2023 launch. This marked one of the fastest-growing debuts in hedge fund history, with Gaonkar leveraging data science to invest across various sectors. She emphasizes a small, collaborative team size for idea generation, drawing parallels to Jeff Bezos’s “two-pizza-box” team concept.
US stocks today: Nasdaq crashes 1,100 pts, Dow 600 pts as chip stocks slide; jobs data fuels rate hike fears
Wall Street tumbled as a strong U.S. jobs report dimmed hopes of rate cuts, triggering a sharp selloff in overheated tech and chip stocks. The