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Episode 391 – From Harvard Med School to a $7.5B Fund | Finny Kuruvilla
Finny Kuruvilla still wears the jacket his mom bought him for medical school interviews in 1994 — and it’s not because he can’t afford a new one. It’s the same conviction that built Eventide, the $7.5 billion investment firm he co-founded on a single, radical idea: investing is ownership, and ownership carries responsibility.
In this conversation with Justin Forman, Finny traces that conviction from a college Bible study on tunics, through a decade of quietly investing on the side as an MD-PhD student, to leading a team of 22 analysts and portfolio managers who screen companies for both financial performance and human flourishing.
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Finny Kuruvilla still wears the jacket his mom bought him for medical school interviews in 1994 — and it’s not because he can’t afford a new one. It’s the same conviction that built Eventide, the $7.5 billion investment firm he co-founded on a single, radical idea: investing is ownership, and ownership carries responsibility.
In this conversation with Justin Forman, Finny traces that conviction from a college Bible study on tunics, through a decade of quietly investing on the side as an MD-PhD student, to leading a team of 22 analysts and portfolio managers who screen companies for both financial performance and human flourishing. Along the way, he unpacks how he and his wife are raising nine kids on zero screens and family worship streaks, why he thinks “the powers that be” today are algorithms rather than nations, and why studying immunology in med school was the most worshipful moment of his life.
This episode is a case study in wholeness — what it looks like when faith isn’t compartmentalized into Sunday mornings but shapes a closet, a portfolio, and a household all the same way. If you’ve ever wondered whether simplicity, capital, and calling can actually hold together, this conversation makes the case that they have to.
Disclosure: 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.
Chapters:
00:00 Cold open: capital and the powers that be
01:35 Finny’s vision for Eventide’s “common good”
05:21 The Eventide thesis: investing is ownership
10:21 Western privilege and the weight of capital
13:32 “One Jacket Finny” and the story behind it
14:25 The Bible verse that reshaped his closet
15:43 His son’s $20 question about Gaza
16:58 Raising nine kids with zero screens
18:24 The family worship streak that hit 200 days
21:00 Meet the Kuruvilla family: nine kids, one rhythm
23:20 The mutual fund full of tobacco stocks that started it all
26:48 Eventide today: $7.5 billion and 75 people
28:16 Who really holds power now
32:45 The Great Commission, Commandment, and Cultivation
39:00 Why denominations silo their gifts
42:45 How Finny actually hears from God
46:15 AI, Neuralink, and a scary decade ahead
47:50 The blood test that catches cancer early
54:32 When secular voices preach biblical truth
56:23 Why nobody explains what medicine actually costs
59:13 The stories that build trust
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