Alex Hirsu

Alex HirsuAug 25, 2026

The thirty largest single family offices in the United States hold roughly 1.6 trillion dollars between them. Nine of them hold four fifths of that. Bezos Expeditions leads at about 235 billion, then Walton Enterprises at 225, Excession at 200, Lawrence Investments at 160, and Cascade at 115. Three things in the card I did not expect. There is a cliff between rank nine and rank ten. Waycrosse sits at 65.2 billion. The next office down is 35. That gap is why the line falls where it does, and it is not a ranking so much as two different asset classes printed on one page. Look at the bottom instead. Seven of the thirty hold under 10 billion, and the list ends at 2. The largest office on this card is more than a hundred times the smallest one. If you are building a target list and treating family office as a single category, those two ends of it do not write the same cheque, take the same meeting, or answer the same email. Four of them report exactly 15 billion. Four separate offices landing on the same flat number, which tells you most of what you need to know about how precise any figure on this card is. Several of these are former hedge funds. Soros, Moore, Appaloosa and Duquesne among them handed back outside capital and kept running the same desk for one family. If you are raising and the person across the table sounds like a fund manager rather than a family, that is the reason. What these numbers are, and are not. Almost no single family office files or discloses anything, so several of these figures are reported family wealth rather than a disclosed assets under management line, gathered from directories and wealth trackers across 2024 to 2026. This ranks what is public. It is not an audit. The quietest offices on this list are the ones you will never see a number for. The full thirty are on the card.

Alex HirsuAug 2, 2026

the first product I ever launched had zero users on day one. I built a lemonade stand at the end of our street. had a great location, decent product, but nobody was walking by. so I moved. not the stand. i started walking up to cars stopped at the red light and selling straight through the window. all of a sudden. sales went from zero to profitable within an hour. my mom found out and made me stop for safety reasons. i quietly started again the next weekend, two streets further from home. i was nine.

Alex HirsuAug 26, 2026

I have watched founders burn the first three weeks of a raise on the wrong investors. Weeks they never get back. So I wrote the guide I wish every founder had before they sent a single message: how to find the right investors, verify them, and run the outreach, without leaving the tools you already use. Inside the guide: → How to describe your raise so you get back a ranked list of named partners, not a giant spreadsheet → The verify step that means you never send to a guessed email again → How verified investors flow straight into your outreach, with no export round trip → How to put the whole loop on a weekly schedule, so fresh investors show up while you sleep All of it inside the tools you already pay for. No exports, no guesswork. This is the exact system I would hand any founder before they open a round.