The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. We should be like, 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] It’s 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] A startup. But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. There’s leverage.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

What are the advantages to being an individual making single decision investments into a startup? How, how different is the UK finance from the US and start the startup mentality? 00:19:00 [Speaker Changed] I mean, that’s a well established mature, if you could say mature startup region, correct.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

You begin at a few tech startups, you found Dex, which eventually gets acquired by Lotus. What was the startup process like? 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.

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