Episode 391 - From Harvard Med School to a $7.5B Fund | Finny Kuruvilla

Two Tunics and $7.5 Billion Host Justin Forman sits down with Finny Kuruvilla, MD, PhD, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Eventide Asset Management, for a conversation that moves from a 32-year-old jacket to a $7.5 billion investment thesis — and asks what it actually means to own something, whether it's a stock, a business, or a life. Finny still wears the jacket his mom bought him for medical school interviews in 1994. That's not nostalgia — it's conviction, traced back to a single verse about tunics that rearranged how he thinks about money, ownership, and enough. That same conviction became the founding thesis of Eventide: investing is ownership, and ownership carries ethical responsibility. Nearly two decades later, Eventide manages $7.5 billion under that idea, and Finny — father of nine, homeschooler, and a physician-scientist by training — is still wrestling with what it means to hold power, capital, and gifting without letting any one of them define him. Key Topics: • Why Finny still wears one jacket — and the Bible study that started it • The founding thesis of Eventide: investing as ownership, ownership as ethical responsibility • Raising nine kids with zero screens before junior high and no phones until 18 • The family worship streak that hit 200 days — and what happens when it does • Why "the powers that be" today are algorithms, not nations • The Great Commission, Great Commandment, and Great Cultivation — and why entrepreneurs need all three • Why science deepened Finny's worship instead of shrinking it • The communication gap that makes people distrust business and medicine This conversation is for any entrepreneur who has confused simplicity with sacrifice, or capital with control. Finny makes the case that ownership — of money, of a business, of a calling — was never meant to be casual. Walk away with a sharper sense of what you actually hold, and Who it belongs to. Watch the full episode on YouTube or continue to stream audio on your favorite podcast platform. Finny Kuruvilla is the Co-Chief Investment Officer at Eventide Asset Management, LLC. Views expressed in this podcast are intended for information purposes and do not constitute investment advice. Eventide does not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. Eventide's values-based approach to investing may not produce desired results and could result in underperformance compared with other investments. There is no guarantee that any investment will achieve its objectives, generate positive returns, or avoid losses. Assets under management data is as of 02/12/2026.