Team Favorite: Fueling Success for Mercedes F1 with Toto Wolff

Bloomberg Audio Studios podcasts radio news. This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittholz on Bloomberg Radio. What can I say about this week's guest, Toto Wolf, principal CEO of Mercedes Formula One race team? What an incredible career from a winning racer to an investor and venture capitalist to a a person who just kind of became a principal at Williams and then eventually after that team surprisingly began to win. got recruited over to Mercedes where he has put together a fantastic track record.

His rookie year at Mercedes was the same rookie year for Lewis Hamilton. Obviously they've had an amazing uh run together. I don't know what else I could say about this conversation. If you're a fan of Formula One racing, if you're a fan of managing a team of people, if you're interested in how to ring out every last millisecond of performance, You're gonna find this conversation absolutely fascinating.

I know I did, with no further ado, my discussion with Mercedes F1's team principal, Toto Wolf. I don't want to waste time singing your accolades, let's just jump right into this. Undergraduate, Vienna University of Economics and Business, how did you end up in in racing? It sounds like you were going into finance. Dropout.

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