William Rhind is the Founder and CEO of GraniteShares, an exchange-traded fund (EFT) company based in New York City. In 2016, Will challenged himself to find a way to do things differently. As a 16-year veteran of the ETF industry with experience working at, building and running, well-established successful ETF businesses, he made a keen observation: investing just isn’t as exciting as it once was. Will asked himself, how do you bring back that excitement? As an experienced entrepreneur, he decided to answer that question by launching his own ETF company – GraniteShares was born. Will’s focus on disrupting the financial industry has taken GraniteShares from an idea to a successful start-up garnering the attention of Bain Capital and other well-known ETF investors who support his passion to create products that will change the way people see investing. Will spends his time outside of GraniteShares with his wife and three children. He’s on the Board of Directors of the Bath University Foundation, has a passion for classic cars, Manchester United, and travel – especially back to his roots in Aberdeen, Scotland, “The Granite City”.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Fred Duncan
- Larry Kinch
- Martin Gilbert
When business started difficulties overcame:
“The complexity frankly of setting up an asset management business from scratch in our industry which is really one of the most highly regulated industries on the planet, it’s not like setting up a website where you can kind of be in business as soon as you do it, almost kind of overnight but it took us a year to set that up”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography Book by Alex FergusonFavourite Quote:
“There’s no business like no business”
Recommended Online Resources:
Podcasts
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Don’t wait, what I mean by that is that when I look back on my career, while I’m incredibly fortunate to be doing what I’m doing, at some level I maybe could have branched out on my own sooner and there are really no good reasons as to why there’s never a perfect time to set up your own business. I sometimes say to people don’t over think it, just get on with it there’s never a perfect time”…[Listen for More]
More About William Rhind:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“In our quest for the answers of life we tend to make order out of chaos, and chaos out of order.” Jeffrey Fry
Other Quotes From the Chat with William Rhind:
- “There are many many different ways to build a successful business there is not just one blueprint”
- “Your desire to create something different or create something better to improve upon the status quo that exists within your particular industry, that’s just something that is either kind of in you or not I think and if you see that opportunity and you can really make things better for your clients for your investors whatever it may be, it’s really just up to you”
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