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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? And I had no work experience in anything.

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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. I mean, you know, I probably shouldn’t have been doing it because I had been a journalist covering public schools and knew nothing about leveraged buyouts. I’ve gone back to Columbia.

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