INVESTOR / PASS
Understand the money.
Study the minds.
Follow the evidence.
Learn how finance works, study exceptional investors, and research what they documented, did, and what happened next. Every unit paraphrased, every record sourced.
ONE QUESTION · 31 INVESTORS
619 sources · 12,078 research units · provenance on every record
Three ways into the record.
LEARN · STUDY · RESEARCH
STUDY
Study exceptional investors.
31 investors · 42 themes · sources · companies · events.
RESEARCH
Investigate the evidence.
Search · compare · decisions · trails · my research.
START RESEARCHINGHow hedge funds work
HOW FINANCE WORKS
What a hedge fund actually is, how the fee structure works, and how the main strategies — long/short, activism, macro, quant — fit the indexed investors in this library.
WHAT THEY DO
Long/short, leverage, and the partnership structure.
HOW THEY MAKE MONEY
Management fees plus performance fees — “2 and 20” and its variants.
THE STRATEGY WORLD
Short selling · activism · macro · quant.
STUDY THE INVESTORS WHO OPERATE IN THIS WORLD
Founders of the East.
CHINA · INDIA
Operator-builders, indexed like the investors. Letters, speeches, interviews and decisions — paraphrased with full source attribution, cross-linked into the same themes, companies and events graph as the Western capital allocators.
CHINA
Jack Ma
Founded Alibaba from a Hangzhou apartment; built it into the largest e-commerce platform in China.
OPEN PROFILECHINA
Pony Ma
Co-founded Tencent and shaped WeChat into China's dominant social-and-payments super-app.
OPEN PROFILECHINA
Lei Jun
Founded Xiaomi on a bet that high-spec phones could ship at near-cost and still scale into services.
OPEN PROFILEINDIA
Mukesh Ambani
Steered Reliance from petrochemicals into telecom with Jio, rewiring India's data and retail economy.
OPEN PROFILEINDIA
Ratan Tata
Took the Tata Group global through acquisitions of Tetley, Jaguar Land Rover and Corus across two decades.
OPEN PROFILEINDIA
Azim Premji
Built Wipro from a vegetable-oil firm into a global IT services leader and gave most of it away.
OPEN PROFILEStart anywhere.
FOUR DOORS IN
INVESTORS
IDEAS
COMPANIES
EVENTS
Every path leads back into the same evidence graph.
From Aditya
FOUNDER · NEWSLETTER
“I'm Aditya. I love investing, finance, and understanding how capital actually moves through the world. I'm building Investor/Pass to make that world easier to understand and easier to research.”
ADITYA — ISSUE #01 · 2026-02-12
Keep your research alive.
YOUR SYSTEM
CONTINUE
Return to the exact path you were on — source, unit, position.
FOLLOW
Investors, ideas, companies, events. Hear about new material first.
SAVE
Bookmarks, collections, saved searches, trails.
NEW SINCE LAST VISIT
Only what changed in what you follow — never global noise.
Conceptual preview — your rails activate when you sign in
What Investor/Pass is
PRODUCT THESIS
Investor/Pass turns difficult-to-navigate public investor records into a structured research system. Search the record, connect ideas, compare investors, trace decisions — and keep your own research organized.
SOURCE-FIRST
Every research unit has provenance — publisher, date, and a link to the original where legitimately available.
CROSS-INVESTOR
Study the same idea across exceptional investors — the wedge no single-investor archive offers.
RESEARCH-FIRST
Move from question to evidence to comparison to decision. Not headlines — method.
PERSONAL
Save, follow and continue your research. The record is public; the trail through it is yours.
Paraphrased summaries with source attribution — never reproductions. Historical reference only, never investment advice.
What's your next research question?
THE RECORD IS WAITING