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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

The opportunities to trade derivatives and be involved in the hedge fund space was something that really had not emerged, at least for me in New York until Canyon Partners provided that opportunity. But if you look at, when I sold my software company in the late 1990s, we had this huge disconnect where I’m a value investor.

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Transcript: David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital

The Big Picture

What gave you the confidence to say, sure, I could raise some money and launch a hedge fund and have my entire income dependent on how well we do? 00:06:52 [Speaker Changed] And how did you find the process of raising money for a hedge fund when you guys were a bunch of young Turks? There were all these mutual funds.

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