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Munger claims private fund managers enrich themselves while underdelivering to endowments
“The world is full of Goldman Sachs partners that formed a private fund, and they manage a billion dollars or something like that, and they charge two points off the top plus this, and that enables them to make very handsome livings themselves, but the endowmen…”
Chang: TSMC funded Apple ramp via debt and filled half their requested volume
“What we first did our financial planning and we decided not to cut dividend. We decided not to sell new stock. We decided to just borrow. And I mean, this was also with consultation with Goldman Sachs, you know, we chose following. How much? I looked at the nu…”
Gerstner: Retail aggregators drive a growing share of crossover fund raises
“And if you look at the retail channel, The accredited investor retail channel, through Goldman, through Morgan Stanley, through these other aggregators, as a percentage of the fundraise for Tiger, for Kotu, for Altimeter, it's going up dramatically relative to…”
Schultz: Goldman Sachs rejected leading Starbucks' 1992 IPO for being too small
“We got turned down by Goldman Sachs.”