A few weeks ago, I read The Money Masters: Nine Great Investors: Their Winning Strategies and How You Can Apply Them by John Train. The book introduced me to T. Rowe Price, and I read his biography, too (more here). I really enjoyed learning a little about several people from a single book. I decided to make biographical anthologies a bigger part of my reading and discovery strategy (more here).

This week, I’m reading another book by John Train, Money Masters of Our Time, and I’ve been reintroduced to another investor I want to learn more about. Julian Robertson founded Tiger Management. I learned about him two years ago while exploring an idea for a studio for venture capital managers. During my research, I was lucky enough to get connected to someone who worked in Robertson’s back office during his heyday who explained to me how the operation ran with the Tiger Cubs.

Robertson was a successful hedge fund investor, and he also seeded and incubated tons of investors who wanted to start their own investing firms. These budding investor entrepreneurs worked out of his office and were known as the “Tiger Cubs.” The list of people Robertson helped in this way is impressive; it includes well-known investors such as Chase Coleman of Tiger Global and Philippe Laffont of Coatue Management.

I think Robertson pioneered a model of seeding and incubating budding investors that’s needed today. The model is clearly lucrative, as Robertson’s economics in the firms of some of his successful Tiger Cubs made him another fortune.

I want to learn more about Robertson, so I’m going to see if I can find a biography of him.