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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Citigroup comes up
Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
- ▶ 8:03 Alex Sloane Matt was at Citi.
Promote Giving – A New Model for Performance-Driven Giving (EP.496)
- ▶ 6:22 Joel Holsinger Then I ended up getting an internship with Citigroup. 3 times in the scene
Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
- ▶ 48:21 Nick Rohatyn The big change was when Citigroup approached us 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:56 Nick Rohatyn The Citigroup London team, we built a business around, as an example.
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 5:42 Alex Sacerdote I started in the business in investment banking, and I worked at Smith Barney, which became Citigroup.
Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)
- ▶ 1:44 Dave Thornton One of the formative parts of my background was working at an internal hedge fund within Citigroup that was getting off the ground before Dodd-Frank, back when banks were allowed to have hedge funds. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:20 Dave Thornton It was comprised of banks that were getting into the private markets and had wealth management businesses, so JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Citigroup, Wells, UBS.
Mason Morfit and Rob Hale – Quiet Activism at ValueAct (EP.462)
- ▶ 9:50 Mason Morfit Number one, we used to bring folks like Jeff Skilling of Enron in and have these big town hall meetings, and everybody would ooh and ah about how brilliant he was, and next in would be Hank Greenberg from AIG, and then Sandy Weil from…
Howard Marks – Navigating Private Credit (EP.439)
- ▶ 25:29 Howard Marks As my partner, Sheldon Stone, who's been with me for 42 years now, he was my first analyst at Citibank.
Brett Barth and Evan Roth – Stewarding Family Wealth at BBR (EP.433)
- ▶ 57:34 Brett Barth They're something that a Morgan Stanley or Citi would put on their prop book, but they can't for red capital charges anymore.
Jeff Glass - Home Equity Investment at Hometap (EP.418)
- ▶ 8:38 Jeff Glass So I was part of Citigroup. 2 times in the scene
Scott Bessent - Macro Maven (EP.415)
- ▶ 12:42 Scott Bessent And this, the big decision for the month, are we going to buy Ford versus GM, Citibank versus JP Morgan?
- ▶ 17:48 Scott Bessent I'm cuffing the numbers, but maybe Citicorp went from 32 to four.
Ben Hunt - The Stories that Drive Markets (EP.393)
Michael Leffell – Opening Doors to Niche Private Opportunities at 10 East (EP.373)
- ▶ 40:04 Michael Leffell We are seeing incredible enthusiasm from our membership in this because they are seeing opportunities that they would not get from JP Morgan or Citibank or Goldman Sachs, and that's not in any way to disparage those firms.
Michael Levy – Crow Family Real Estate Empire (EP.353)
- ▶ 7:59 Michael Levy I was at Prudential Securities, and I understood in that business that there was Class B firms and Class A firms, and so I was able to navigate my way to Salomon Brothers, and they quickly got gobbled up by Citigroup, and I said, well,…
Porter Collins and Vincent Daniel - Big Shorts and Big Longs (Capital Allocators, EP.325)
- ▶ 25:53 Vincent Daniel But it's a way of thinking that Porter and I never wanted to get to that level of thinking of just pair trading, say, Citigroup versus Morgan Stanley and pray to God.
Andy Lee – Empty Rooms: Investing in Tax Assets at Parallaxes Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.305)
Thomas Majewski – Empty Rooms: Masterclass on CLOs at Eagle Point Credit Management (Capital Allocators, EP. 284)
- ▶ 40:36 Tom Majewski Morgan Stanley or Citibank or JP Morgan, and we'll negotiate with them as to what their placement fees would be.
Josh Friedman – Master Class in Credit Investing at Canyon (Capital Allocators, EP.263)
- ▶ 35:28 Josh Friedman Many, many firms doing direct lending, and you'll see some of those firms appear in the league tables as direct competitors of JPMorgan and Citibank and Goldman Sachs and everyone else.
John Barber – The Art of Co-Investing at Cohesive Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.31)
- ▶ 7:42 John Barber I became quite friendly with a guy named Jay Fishman, who was the CEO of travelers who had worked at city with us.
- ▶ 14:10 John Barber We then merged with Citi.
- ▶ 14:35 John Barber In 1999, 2000, I was helping run equity capital markets at Citi 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:12 John Barber What I had learned at Citi was we weren't big 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:59 John Barber We were doing funds at Citi.
- ▶ 45:36 John Barber By chance, you know, we both left Kidder, and he ended up at Traveler slash Citigroup as well, and he just taught me so much.
Private Equity Masters 8 – Chuck Davis – Stone Point Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.207)
- ▶ 28:11 Chuck Davis And we've bought over 20 companies from Citibank and Travelers and Swiss Re and all the big financial institutions.
- ▶ 37:18 Chuck Davis Of any consequence that weren't owned by Citi, Bank of America, or someone from out of state.
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Diameter Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.05)
- ▶ 28:11 Jonathan Lewinsohn He had run the high yield business at Citi.
Julia Bonafede – Rosetta Analytics (Manager Meetings, EP.04)
- ▶ 15:40 Julia Bonafede They were just weren't in really in leadership positions, and I can remember maybe the one of the most awkward moments as I was, I think I was nine months pregnant with my daughter, and I had to go meet with and train somebody at Citibank…
Private Equity Masters 5: Virginie Morgon – Eurazeo (Capital Allocators, EP. 204)
- ▶ 57:38 Virginie Morgon He was a banker at Citibank.
Brett Jefferson – Inefficiencies in Structured Credit at Hildene Capital Management (First Meeting, EP.19)
- ▶ 24:56 Brett Jefferson I became good friends and partners with a guy at Citigroup by the name of Donald Quentin, who he and I kind of looked at the world the same way after I walked him through this.
- ▶ 30:15 Brett Jefferson John Scannell, who's still with me, is my chief operating officer, and he worked in the CLO business at Citi, and he was also a lawyer, so he was a good person.
Dawn Fitzpatrick – Multi-Faceted Investing at Soros Fund Management (Capital Allocators, EP.112)
- ▶ 6:52 Dawn Fitzpatrick But the good thing was, back then, the city group was run by the policy committee, and they all sat at three 99 park on the second floor.
Brent Beshore - Micro Buyout Adventur.es (Capital Allocators, EP.79)
- ▶ 54:13 Brent Beshore I think it was a city group guy who said, if the music's playing, you got to Chuck Prince.
Manny Friedman – Non-Linear Financial Systems (Capital Allocators, EP.61)
- ▶ 41:41 Manny Friedman Citicorp is systemically important, so there isn't going to be massive relief for the big banks, because
Anthony Scaramucci – It's Called a Mooch (Capital Allocators, EP.60)
- ▶ 18:56 Anthony Scaramucci So that was a good cornerstone business, and then Citibank was shedding their assets, and so I went over there to buy their seeding business, and Mike Corbat, who's now the CEO of Citi, who was running their private equity area, said to… 2 times in the scene
Peter Troob – Monkey Business in High Yield (Capital Allocators, EP.59)
- ▶ 49:14 Peter Troob My father had a business, as we discussed, selling small businesses, so he bought a company that sold small businesses, and nobody ever wanted it, because it was a pain to do, and when he was up to selling over a hundred small businesses a…
Michael Cembalest – Eye on the Market (Capital Allocators, EP.49)
- ▶ 7:35 Michael Cembalest We were in a pretty good capital position then, and when we wrote off a lot of that debt, Walter Wriston and John Reed and the leadership at Citigroup were pretty upset because they felt that JP Morgan was setting a standard that some of…
- ▶ 13:08 Michael Cembalest And someone had mentioned to me that it wasn't that they were concerned about us exchanging information, because we had signed a document with the head of the legal, Ned Kelly, who eventually went to City Group that we wouldn't share…
Bill Spitz – Seasoned Commodore (Capital Allocators, EP.37)
- ▶ 6:53 Bill Spitz I went to work for Citigroup in the investment management area.
Thomas Russo – Buy and Hold...and Then What (Capital Allocators, EP.16)
Charley Ellis – Multiple Ways to Win (Capital Allocators, EP.08)
- ▶ 29:57 Charlie Ellis Citigroup, for an example, charged 10 basis points.