The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

You would have the investment bank and the founders and a whole bunch of folks do these giant road shows and they would go from New York to Boston, they’d go out to San Francisco, they would go all around the country showing off the company before the big wedding. They, they manage them, not what you guys do.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And what was fascinating about Drexel and kind of the diaspora, if you will, of that era was that we all basically went out looking to take that experience, particularly in high yield and kind of buyouts and financing, and do it at either banks or other investment banks. KENCEL: — as an equity partner, right?

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The Big Picture

JULY 26, 2022

Graham Weaver is the founder and partner at Alpine Investors, a private equity firm, focusing on software and services. Graham has a really interesting background, both engineering at Princeton and essentially launching a PE firm while he was a graduate student at Stanford. They could have been in consulting firm.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up. And then I moved back to London at the end of 2008, which was a really interesting pivot. At the end of 2008, we owned a lot of illiquid assets. And there was a problem with 168 of them at the end of 2008. RITHOLTZ: Good timing, yes.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

That whole distressed debt department at city 00:06:31 [Speaker Changed] Banks are wanting to sell? I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. It was very much a brokerage house with a growing, expanding investment bank. It wasn’t really a proprietary investing trading culture.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But if you don’t, if you grew up in a market, where there’s not an investment bank, there’s nothing other than a branch bank for one of the multi-dimensional financials, then you’re not really going to have an understanding of what that career looks like at a young age. Your parent may work there.

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The Big Picture

JULY 18, 2023

Most guys and gals who get into the business of working at a hedge fund, never mind you know founding and running one, you I think there’s a pretty typical track where they’re finance majors at top schools, they work at an investment bank or an advisory bank, sometimes at a law firm, and then they make their way into the investing realm.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

00:06:15 And I was fortunate to find a seat in that group and invested, you know, very steadily in, in 2007. Not, not terribly busy in 2007 to be honest, but in 2008, 2009, 10, it was by far the busiest time in my career in investing. I mean, if, if you’re buying can’t help you there, right?

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I’d also say, you know, interestingly, when I was going to interviews at different private equity firms or different real estate firms, it was noticeable that in the real estate brochures of those companies, there was a huge amount of diversity in the kinds of people that worked at these firms.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $340,048 !* Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $44,908 !* Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, youd have $554,019 !*

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You 00:35:28 [Speaker Changed] Know, we went, I don’t remember the dates exactly, but, you know, we were watching the, the mortgage banks, the mortgage originators, right? And remember there were, I think it’s about 32 mortgage banks, mortgage origins. They didn’t make it through 2008.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

You know, GE Capital, you have to understand, like, investment banking was so hot then. COHAN: Everybody wanted to be an investment banker. I mean, investment bankers were rock stars, right? COHAN: — because, you know, there were 72 partners and 72 non-partners in the investment banking group, so very small.

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