Ray Dalio: Meetings with leaders shaping the world

Billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist Ray Dalio says that when looking to find his replacement as leader of Bridgewater, he looked to the innovative minds of our time as guideposts. Dalio gave personality tests to Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, as well as Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and others, to find benchmarks for greatness. These “shapers,” as he calls them, were all creative, but also practical, and recalls conversations with Musk about going to Mars, and Gates on social and technological issues. Dalio’s longtime friend and co-CIO Bob Prince says that Dalio engages with global leaders as part of his desire for his work to have a helpful impact in the real world. Plus, Dalio describes the dinner he had with former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, Former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, and former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker. Also, Dalio recounts his conversations with Vladimir Putin of Russia. Want to see more