Anthony Scaramucci
Founder and Managing Partner, SkyBridge Capital
This episode will premiere Thursday, October 16 at 7:00 pm ET.
If you're talking about your life with vulnerability, and you're talking about life with fallibility, you're creating space for your employees and your partners to also fail.
Summary
In this episode of Leadership Matters, Alan Fleischmann sits down with Anthony Scaramucci, Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital, for an open conversation about leadership, humility, and reinvention. From his working-class roots on Long Island to Goldman Sachs, the White House, and beyond, Anthony shares lessons in resilience, failure, and self-leadership. He discusses the importance of mentorship, the influence of Stoic philosophy, and how staying adaptable — whether through embracing digital assets or AI — defines great leadership. Together, Alan and Anthony explore what it means to lead with candor, curiosity, and compassion in a fast-changing world.
Mentions & Resources
The Little Book of Bitcoin by Anthony Scaramucci
Guest Bio
Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio.
He is co-host of two podcasts, “The Rest Is Politics US” and “Open Book,” and author of six books, including most recently “The Little Book of Bitcoin.”
Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman in 2001. Earlier, he worked in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs & Co.
In 2022, Scaramucci was ranked #47 in Cointelegraph’s Top 100 Influencers in Crypto and Blockchain. In 2016, he was ranked #85 in Worth Magazine’s Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young’s New York Financial Services “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Scaramucci served on President Donald J. Trump’s Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee in 2016 before serving briefly as White House Communications Director.
Scaramucci, a native of Long Island, New York, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Tufts University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
Transcript
Transcript will be uploaded upon the episode’s premiere.