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Odds on Open

22-Year-Old Hedge Fund Manager: “Hedge funds are the least sexy business in the world”

Aug 27, 2026 · 1h 5m

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Checkout Flux 4.0 here: https://www.flux.live/flux4/index.html Noah Kann is 22, running his third firm, and managing capital raised from some of the wealthiest families in America. On this episode of Odds on Open, Ethan Kho sits down with the co-CEO of Venari Asset Management to unpack what a 22-year-old hedge fund manager knows that 20-year Wall Street veterans miss: why running a hedge fund is the least sexy business in finance, why compliance and a well-written PPM are an emerging manager's competitive advantage, and why complacency, not inexperience, is the real driver of alpha decay. Noah walks through his path from buying HCA at $15 during the COVID drawdown at 16, to a leveraged…