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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The investment banks were stuck with syndications that they had committed to, to place in the markets with price caps on the, on the coupons. Another floating ra, another interest rate sensitive asset class or LBOs, highly levered leveraged buyouts supported by floating rate liabilities. It, it, it was huge price declines.

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JUNE 13, 2023

So that was a while back, but nonetheless, I don’t know if it was love at first sight, but we got to get along pretty well, and after a few years working for investment banks, he then joined Goldman Sachs. I joined, effectively, Deutsche Bank. Private equity at the time was only about buyout and LBO.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

Barry Ritholtz : We always pay attention to regions where there is a pool of capital, a world class educational institution and a, a private sector that can combine all three. The interlinkages between women, our education policy, labor force, productivity, and again, ultimately the growth of the economy. Fascinating.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

One, two, there was a theory that these businesses had volatile cash flows and therefore couldn’t be leveraged, which was the, you know, the whole point of leveraged buyouts. He was running the h and q investment bank, and then Roger was my next door neighbor and very good friends with Jim. Is, is that a fair description?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But I wasn’t, I had no idea how interested I was in the topic, but I became fascinated by it and educated myself and wish it would’ve been nice to have had the internet back then. And, and we’ll even do an occasional buyout or two where we think there’s huge growth opportunities if we invest in the tech portion of it.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

COHAN: I was doing something I probably should never have been allowed to do, which was write about public education in Wake County, which was fine. And no one had ever done that, I had to get special permission from the Board of Education in Brooklyn back when they still do that. COHAN: Everybody wanted to be an investment banker.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A guy who grows up in a lower middle class family gets through college and law school on scholarships and, and goes on to, to found one of the most successful buyout private equity and venture firms in history. Let’s talk a little bit about your educational background. It was then called buyouts. What can you say?

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