Nick Platt ’87
Company / School: Kudu Investment Management, LLC
Position / Degree: Partner & Co-Founder
Overview
Partner & Co-Founder, Kudu Investment Management, LLC
New York, NY
- BA, Political Science, Vassar College
Nick Platt (he/him) has had an entrepreneurial career with a focus on finance. He began as a financial correspondent for Reuters, covering the auto and high technology industries. From Reuters, he joined Asset International, a financial publisher, where, as COO, he helped build the business and sell it to private equity. After that, he became an M&A banker in the asset management space, which led him to co-found Kudu Investment Management, LLC, an investor that has bought stakes in 32 asset management firms. Kudu’s firms collectively manage $145 billion.
Advice to Students:
Take advantage of your youth, with its lack of encumbrances and relatively low risk, to experiment and find out what you are good at and passionate about. Learning comes from doing, not thinking. When you do, you learn about yourself, which is so important when you are still young. Take action and don’t be afraid to fail or make mistakes.
