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Bruce MacDonald – The Playbook for Building a Mid-Sized Endowment from Scratch (EP.495)
- ▶ 1:59 Ted Seides Our conversation covers Bruce unconventional path from a religion major at Wesleyan to fixed income investing at Putnam and endowment roles at Columbia and UVIMCO before arriving at VCU.
- ▶ 12:28 Bruce MacDonald I somehow got a break and I got a job at Columbia being a fundraiser. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:47 Ted Seides What was different for you in what you saw from the years spent managing fixing portfolios with those two bookends of Columbia at the beginning and then Virginia afterwards?
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 1:02:15 Brett McGurk I was a law clerk after Columbia in the Second Circuit for Dennis Jacobs.
Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)
- ▶ 46:10 Dave Thornton He is a mathematical statistics PhD from Columbia.
David Zorub - Navigating Hedge Fund Headwinds at Parsifal (EP.434)
- ▶ 6:53 David Zorub I think when we did the live talk at Columbia, it was the day after Valentine's Day, 2019.
- ▶ 39:51 David Zorub Certainly within a portfolio like ours, I think in our first conversation at Columbia, I wished for a world that looked more like David Swenson's original formulation of long short, where he was putting a four to five percent short rebate…
Training Grounds – Carnegie Corporation of New York (EP.377)
- ▶ 5:20 Ted Seides At Carnegie and Columbia, John Michael Consalvo at Carnegie, Elisa Maul at Michael Dell's family office, Niles Bryant at Bowdoin College, Brooke Jones at Bryn Mawr College, Ken Lee at Children's Healthcare, and Lee Tan at Radiant X.
- ▶ 45:56 Elisa Maul Nobody can say you're just a real assets person because now you have been an early stage venture and life sciences, and you have a job with me wherever I go, and she was not yet at Columbia, and it was such a gift to me because I felt that… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:43 Ted Seides What was the impetus for you moving to Columbia? 7 times in the scene
Ted Martell – Empty Rooms: Commercial Real Estate Non-Performing Loans in NYC at Maverick Real Estate (EP.349)
- ▶ 46:14 Ted Martell I've had this really incredible trajectory in my life where I got to go to Princeton, and I got to go to Columbia, and I've started my own business, and I've got a beautiful family with three little kids.
Seth Klarman – Timeless Value Investing (EP.328)
- ▶ 6:14 Ted Seides Jenny Heller from Brandywine, Kim Liu from Columbia, Anna Marshall from the Hewlett Foundation, and Brian O'Neill, recently retired from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Ravi Viswanathan – Venture Secondaries and Growth Capital at NewView (EP.327)
- ▶ 2:11 Ted Seides Jenny Heller from Brandywine, Kim Liu from Columbia, Anna Marshall from the Hewlett Foundation, and Brian O'Neill, recently retired from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Don Mullen –Single-Family Rentals at Pretium (Capital Allocators, EP.324)
- ▶ 2:24 Ted Seides Jenny Heller from Brandywine, Kim Liu from Columbia, Anna Marshall from the Hewlett Foundation, and Brian O'Neill, recently retired from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- ▶ 4:18 Don Mullen And eventually got an engineering degree and a business degree from Columbia.
Matt Breitfelder – Optimizing Investment Performance through Human Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.323)
- ▶ 5:53 Ted Seides And we'll engage with four fantastic chief investment officers, Jenny Heller from Brandywine, Kim Liu from Columbia, Anna Marshall from the Hewlett Foundation, and Brian O'Neill, recently retired from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Jim Falbe – Modern Value Investing at Saguaro (Capital Allocators, EP.320)
- ▶ 2:06 Ted Seides And we'll engage with four fantastic chief investment officers, Jenny Heller from Brandywine, Kim Liu from Columbia, Anna Marshall from the Hewlett Foundation, and Brian O'Neill, recently retired from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- ▶ 11:22 Jim Falbe Ended up doing pretty good on that test and wanted to go to Columbia, because that's what Warren Buffett did, but ended up not being able to go to Columbia, and the university which was willing to take a chance on me was Notre Dame. 2 times in the scene
Adam Shapiro – Post-Breeding Grounds for Rising Stars and Families (Capital Allocators, EP.319)
- ▶ 5:38 Ted Seides And we'll engage with four fantastic chief investment officers, Jenny Heller from Brandywine, Kim Liu from Columbia,
Tony Yoseloff – Forty Years of Davidson Kempner (Capital Allocators, EP.313)
- ▶ 6:22 Tony Yoseloff I left Princeton a year early to start at Columbia, and I did a joint law business degree at Columbia, and I was a public policy major at Princeton, and I was very torn between doing a career in regulatory law and doing a career in… 2 times in the scene
Reade Griffith – Managing Assets and Partnerships at Tetragon (Capital Allocators, EP.276)
- ▶ 10:45 Reade Griffith Was a professor at Columbia and then eventually went to Fortune and was writing and eventually found a strategy he liked and set up the first hedge fund.
Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- ▶ 9:13 Ted Seides Galen Schumann, who I worked with, who ran Carnegie Corp for years and trained Kim Liu, who's now at Columbia University and Meredith Jenkins at Trinity Wall Street.
Paul Enright – Inside Long-Short Equity Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.266)
- ▶ 56:46 Paul Enright Yen taught this class at Columbia for years, and I always used to come and give a guest lecture, and the response that I would get from that, and the follow-ups, and the questions, and just the sort of clarity, I think, of clarity of… 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 40:48 Chris Dixon We hired this amazing guy, Tim Roughgarden, who's a professor at computer science at Columbia, who now is full time with us, who's leading that effort, and just hired a whole bunch of other great professors.
John Barber – The Art of Co-Investing at Cohesive Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.31)
- ▶ 5:55 John Barber I had a father who was a PhD from Harvard in sociology and taught at Columbia University for 35 years, and probably much more amazingly, I had a mother who was a PhD in Harvard in history and worked her whole life, including 17 years at…
Sahil Bloom – Creativity, Investing, and Engineered Serendipity (Capital Allocators, EP.249)
- ▶ 7:46 Sahil Bloom Prior to that was the chairman of the economics department at Columbia right here.
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 24:21 Josh Wolfe And he's sitting in a dorm room at Columbia, still living with bunk beds.
Stefan Kaluzny – Sycamore Partners [Manager Meetings, EP.16]
- ▶ 4:33 Ted Seides Kim is the president and CEO of the Columbia Investment Management Company, where she's responsible for managing the university's eleven billion dollar endowment. 3 times in the scene
David Baran and Kazuhiko Shibata – Friendly Activism in Japan at Symphony (Capital Allocators, EP.176)
- ▶ 6:19 David Baran Cal was very flush with Japan experts, and that got me straight to Columbia. 2 times in the scene
BONUS – Michael Mauboussin on the Decision Education Podcast
- ▶ 3:52 Dr. Joe Sweeney You not only focus on decision-making professionally in the field of finance and teach about it at Columbia University, but you've literally written books about it.
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 7:03 Chris Dixon I have to say one thing about Columbia where I went was they were really strict about writing and would literally go through almost like you're a third grader and with a red pen and mark every single thing up and over and over and over.
Joel Greenblatt – Common Sense for Value at Gotham Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.165)
- ▶ 24:15 Joel Greenblatt I started teaching around that as well after I gave back the money at Columbia in 96.
- ▶ 28:08 Joel Greenblatt I had not started teaching at Columbia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:47 Joel Greenblatt If I do a good job valuing this business that I make a promise to my students every year at Columbia, I taught there for 23 years.
- ▶ 58:10 Joel Greenblatt And I wrote about something I talked about with my kids at Columbia.
- ▶ 1:15:16 Joel Greenblatt We'll make things harder, but having a long-term perspective, I always give the example when my kids at Columbia ask the question, I say, hey, let's go back when you guys learned how to read and take a look at the most followed market in…
Adam Fisher – Blending Global Macro and Real Estate at Commonwealth Asset Management (First Meeting, EP.21)
- ▶ 8:50 Adam Fisher 10 or 11 years old, that's what I wanted to do, and I've never changed my view on that, and that's, I don't know if that's healthy, unhealthy, but it was my reality, and so, you know, I was maniacally focused on trying to get a job that… 2 times in the scene
Mike Mauzé - Escape Velocity for CPG Brands at VMG Partners (First Meeting, EP.16)
- ▶ 7:18 Mike Mauze So they would send us up to Columbia, full scholarship, full salary, and it was a wonderful thing. 2 times in the scene
Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital (First Meeting, EP.06)
- ▶ 39:51 Mike Novogratz University of Pennsylvania and Columbia are either in or getting in.
Martin Whittaker – JUST Capital (First Meeting, EP.02)
- ▶ 9:21 Martin Whittaker But Just Capital itself was really, it's interesting, there are several co-founders, but the two that came together to spark it were Deepak Chopra, who was teaching a course at Columbia on
David Zorub - The Path to a Hedge Fund Launch (Capital Allocators, EP.96)
- ▶ 4:24 Ted Seides I interviewed Dave recently at Columbia University's Student Investment Management Conference, and that conversation follows.
Annie Duke – Thinking More in Bets (Capital Allocators, EP.76)
- ▶ 5:30 Ted Seides She studied cognitive psychology at Columbia and Penn, which as you can imagine is the natural path to becoming a professional poker player.
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 4:19 Ted Seides Josh is an innovative thinker whose ideas have found their way to columns in Forbes, lectures at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, and NYU, and storms on Twitter.
- ▶ 30:14 Josh Wolfe And so, in this particular case, we funded a company here out of Columbia called Calliope, and we helped to start it up, and it was about sequencing the gut-brain access, and that's relevant for everything from pharmaceuticals for obesity… 2 times in the scene
Wayne Wicker - Managing for Millions who Matter (Capital Allocators, EP.44)
- ▶ 56:23 Wayne Wicker You know, my eyes kind of glaze over when, ah, as we've just shifted into a new risk analytics, ah, uh, system, ah, with, I, we have someone who's a PhD out of Columbia who runs that thing.
Annie Duke - Improving Decision Making [Capital Allocators, EP.39]
- ▶ 6:26 Annie Duke So I started off doing my undergrad at Columbia and there in my freshman year, I met a professor there named Barbara Landau. 2 times in the scene
Margaret Chen – Leadership and Outsourcing the Investment Office (Capital Allocators, EP.35)
- ▶ 18:16 Margaret Chen And then at Columbia and getting a PhD and in engineering.
Paul Johnson and Paul Sonkin – The Perfect Investment (Capital Allocators, EP.32)
- ▶ 10:09 Paul Johnson When Paul and I started writing this, we've both been teaching forever at Columbia, and we thought literally you could write the book a couple hours a week for a year, we'd be done.