Capital Allocators · Monday, July 27, 2026
Michelle Knudsen highlighted the critical role of leveraging one's network for making good decisions, a lesson reinforced during her time at Goldman Sachs. She emphasized that accessing diverse information sources beyond one's immediate environment provides a more comprehensive picture, a practice she found particularly important as she moved to smaller organizations.
“Using your network was a critical component of making those good decisions.”
“Being able to leverage those different information sources to pull together a better picture of what was going on instead of just focusing on your small microcosm.”
“Cultivating that network more broadly across the investment industry and beyond that was important for having those information sources in good times and in bad.”