Lazard

“Even when a product is made in the United States, and in solar, solar specifically, It is still cost competitive with other forms of technology. You look at Lazard's LCOE models and those cost charts, solar is always going to be right on the bottom, and that i…”

“If the firm hadn't gone public in 1999, it would have missed kind of the global expansion of capital markets and probably would look more like, not to pick on anybody, but just to pick any more like Wazard. Today than like Goldman Sachs.”

“REITs were the antithesis of what anybody wanted to own. So the most impactful thing that I learned at Lazard, having been the grunt guy, running all the models in advance of the CEOs coming in to complain to my managing director why their stocks all traded at…”

“There were three different banks just with the, you know, Lazar Frere, Lazar Brothers, Lazar Frere, and they hated each other. They were competing with each other, and I mean, the Brits were, they were the Brits, and the French were looking down on the Brits, …”

“Because remember, 2004, five, six, seven, like a craziness of private equity, and it was less about client relationships as bankers, and more about securing a mandate with, you know, whoever was trying to buy whatever asset.”