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Operator-Led Private Equity at Ethos - Erik Brooks (EP.504)
- ▶ 17:17 Eric Brooks Andrew and Royce were the two senior partners at Bain Consulting running their media practice.
Jay Ripley – Emerging Manager Selection at GEM (EP.470)
- ▶ 28:39 Jay Ripley As you get larger and get into the multi-billion dollar fund sizes, it's here's a Goldman auction book with a Bain report and stapled financing.
Mason Morfit and Rob Hale – Quiet Activism at ValueAct (EP.462)
Hugh MacArthur – Private Equity's Challenges and Opportunities (EP.453)
- ▶ 4:25 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Hugh McArthur, the chairman of Bain & Company's Global Private Equity Practice, which he helped found more than 30 years ago. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:07 Ted Seides Well, you've had a long run at Bain. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:46 Hugh MacArthur So if you went and hired Bain to do something, you could literally get anybody from Bain on the case and regardless of their background. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:35 Hugh MacArthur And so we thought no company was ever going to be big enough to hire Bain once they were a portfolio company, because they were so small. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:12 Hugh MacArthur There are some folks that have a retainer team of Bain consultants, 365 days a year, and every investment idea that comes in the door, they want us to look at, whether it's for an hour or a day or a week or several weeks.
- ▶ 24:09 Hugh MacArthur Somebody knew somebody at Bain who said, do you guys know anything about
- ▶ 1:09:31 Hugh MacArthur I had no idea I was going to work at a place like Bain. 2 times in the scene
Michael Sidgmore – Alternatives Go Mainstream (Private Wealth 1, EP.443)
- ▶ 20:13 Michael Sidgmore Of the 145 trillion of assets that Bain talks about is actually allocated to private markets within the wealth channel.
- ▶ 40:05 Michael Sidgmore I'll call out a Bain survey from twenty-twenty-two. 2 times in the scene
Brad Briner - Family Office to Public Service (EP.413)
- ▶ 8:36 AI Co-host 1 (NotebookLM) Sands talks about this Bain & Company study.
Matt Miller – Crossing the Energy Divide at Grey Rock (EP.412)
- ▶ 7:42 AI Co-host 1 (NotebookLM) Sands talks about this Bain & Company study.
David Salem - Investment Wisdom from the Owner's Box (EP.409)
- ▶ 10:13 David Salem Everyone was clamoring to get into Mike Porter's strategy class because everybody wanted to go to work at Bain or BCG, or they wanted to take Bill Porvo's class in realty because they wanted to go to work for Heinz Interest or Trammell…
David Eichhorn - Serving Clients and Reducing Risk at NISA (EP.403)
- ▶ 31:12 David Eichhorn I've taken some terminology from Bain Consulting, which is the founder's mentality.
- ▶ 35:33 David Eichhorn A term that comes from Bain that I adopted.
Rob Small and Anil Seetharam - Public Equity Adjacent to Private Equity at Stockbridge (EP.397)
Training Grounds: Bain Capital, John Connaughton (EP.395)
- ▶ 7:16 John Connaughton To take you back, you have to go back to 1973 because Bain and company was started on a very different premise as a consulting firm versus McKinsey and BCG and Booz Allen. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:04 John Connaughton Bain & Company and the consulting culture was a training and development culture, which is very different than a lot of the Wall Street orientated firms.
Dan Tennebaum - The Case for India at India Capital (EP.387)
- ▶ 4:37 Dan Tannenbaum And afterwards, I ended up in Boston at Bain & Company. 5 times in the scene
Chad Summe and Mike Veith – Corridor of Commerce at eGateway Capital (EP.364)
- ▶ 38:02 Mike Vieth He went to Harvard Business School and then was at Bain, consulting in tech and private equity, and then launched a portfolio of direct-to-consumer pet brands.
Tim Lyne – Three Decades of Private Credit at Antares (EP.346)
Finny Kuruvilla – The Fourth Source of Alpha at Eventide (EP.343)
- ▶ 43:28 Finny Kuruvilla He's a management consultant at Bain, where he has shown that the companies that make the right decisions, even in the face of seemingly financially disadvantaged conditions for the short term, over the long haul, actually outperform their…
Classic Deal: HCA – Chris Gordon, Bain Capital (EP.335)
- ▶ 7:35 Chris Gordon If I rewind back to the very beginnings of Bain Capital, which was even before my 26 years, we started off in 1984, and it was a spin out of a group of consultants who came out of Bain Consulting under Mitt Romney with this core concept…
Stan Miranda – Modern Endowment Model at Partners Capital (EP.334)
- ▶ 4:38 Ted Seides Before Partners, Stan spent 17 years at Bain & Company, rising to chairman of the worldwide executive committee and leading its private equity practice.
- ▶ 8:59 Stan Miranda So before Evolution Global Partners, I was at Bain building their private equity consulting practice, which meant we did due diligence on
- ▶ 10:03 Stan Miranda The backers were Bonderman and Coulter of TPG, and Byers and Schlein of Kleiner Perkins, and then there was a Bain investment with John Donahoe, and they were just pushing us so hard.
- ▶ 16:28 Stan Miranda After 19 years at Bain, you just had an appreciation for the fact that there was a best way of doing almost anything.
Carol Geremia - Creating Long-Term Value for (almost) 100 Years at MFS (Capital Allocators, EP. 287)
- ▶ 2:12 Carol Geremia Was working with MFS and places like Bain and, and other financial organizations in Boston.
Regan Bozman – Defensible Moats in Crypto at Lattice Capital (Manager Meetings, 34)
- ▶ 6:09 Regan Bozman Going to somewhere like Bain or McKinsey was cooler, but I knew a few people who'd sort of dropped out to start companies, and that just seemed really interesting.
Sahil Bloom – Creativity, Investing, and Engineered Serendipity (Capital Allocators, EP.249)
- ▶ 14:26 Sahil Bloom I got connected through the Stanford network with this guy named Jesse Rogers, who had previously co-founded Bain and Company's private equity consulting practice, had left there and started a firm called Golden Gate Capital, which started…
Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
- ▶ 25:44 Annie Lamont We don't hire Bain.
Erik Serrano Berntsen – Backing Alternative Founders at Stable Asset Management (Capital Allocators, EP.218)
- ▶ 7:42 Erik Serrano Berntsen So I end up at Badenco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:04 Erik Serrano Berntsen So, and they're sitting at Bain, and I'm thinking, I'd love to do something of my own, to finally be a founder myself. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:22 Erik Serrano Berntsen I think the second one, also formative experience, had to be at Bain. 2 times in the scene
Private Equity Master 2: John Connaughton – Bain Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.201)
- ▶ 7:11 John Connaughton The firm founded itself in, in 1985, and it was a spin-out from Bain & Company, the consulting firm. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:56 John Connaughton I only spent 15 months in consulting, so I wouldn't want that as my profession, although I have very good friends at Bain and McKinsey and others places, but, but I think if you take that core intellectual curiosity,
Yen Liow - The Quest for the Right Tail at Aravt Global (Capital Allocators, EP.188)
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 10:50 Jeff Hausenbold Who came out of BCG and Bain, and I came out of strategy consulting. 2 times in the scene
Christie Hamilton – Tweeting on Allocation at Children's Health (Capital Allocators, EP.124)
- ▶ 48:46 Christy Hamilton McKinsey, Bain, all of those groups, because so many of them do actual due diligence for private equity, and it's fascinating to hear their insights.
Jay Girotto – Farmland Opportunity (First Meeting, EP.10)
- ▶ 6:56 Jay Girotto Worked in Boston at Bain & Company in between the two, and in 1999 sort of launched myself into software coming out of business school at the height of the internet bubble, which was an interesting experience for sure.
Mark Baumgartner – Luck, Risk and Uncertainty at the Institute for Advanced Study (Capital Allocators, EP.77)
- ▶ 7:38 Mark Baumgartner So Hamilton was a, a Bain consultant. 2 times in the scene
Chatri Sityodtong – Warrior Spirit (Capital Allocators, EP.22)
- ▶ 4:20 Ted Seides He graduated from Tufts University, worked at Fidelity Investments and Bain Consulting, attended Harvard Business School, took a run at a technology startup, and then spent a decade working at hedge funds, culminating in launching his own…