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Will Guidara – Unreasonable Hospitality (EP.492)
- ▶ 9:54 Will Guidara And when I was 12, I knew I wanted to go to Cornell.
- ▶ 52:23 Will Guidara From that point forward, I knew I wanted to go to Cornell.
Bobby Jain – Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund First Principles at Jain Global (EP.487)
- ▶ 7:43 Bobby Jain I went to Cornell.
- ▶ 24:16 Bobby Jain One of the things that I do separately from my day job is I've sat on the board of numerous investment committees, including two Ivy League, Harvard, and Cornell.
- ▶ 58:58 Ted Seides You mentioned earlier being on the boards of the investment committees of Harvard and Cornell.
Gary Sernovitz - Inside the CIO Seat (EP.357)
- ▶ 6:24 Gary Sernovitz Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, went to college, Cornell.
Carla Harris – Pearls of Career Wisdom (Capital Allocators, EP.267)
- ▶ 8:24 Carla Harris I think I'm going to apply to Cornell or Princeton. 4 times in the scene
Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)
- ▶ 13:19 Chris Douvos So you went to Cornell and Cornell was like a hotbed of cool stuff going on in that era, especially. 5 times in the scene
Savneet Singh – The Operator/Investor whose Software is Feeding the World (Capital Allocators, EP.220)
- ▶ 6:12 Savneet Singh And so I started writing all of the investors that had gone to Cornell, Seth Klarman and Dwight Anderson, all these guys, and probably none of them remember me messaging them.
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Diameter Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.05)
- ▶ 15:10 Jonathan Lewinsohn I went to college at Cornell.
Bill Ford – General Atlantic (Manager Meetings, EP.03)
BONUS – Michael Mauboussin on the Decision Education Podcast
- ▶ 14:04 Michael Mauboussin And, you know, one of the great stories is the work of, is, is beautiful work by Thomas Seeley at Cornell University on honeybees.
- ▶ 28:36 Michael Mauboussin I'm completely fascinated, and I would just say for anybody, any viewers or listeners who are interested, I mentioned Thomas Sealy at Cornell University, who, of whom I'm just a huge fan, and he wrote a beautiful book, and Joe, if you…
Sustainable Investing 8: Lauren Taylor Wolfe – Activist Perspective (Capital Allocators, EP.146)
- ▶ 6:23 Lauren Taylor Wolfe I ran a business at Cornell, my undergrad university,
Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
- ▶ 43:54 Gregory Zuckerman He got this guy, Jim Axe, who was a Cornell, the youngest tenured professor at Cornell, and he somehow got him to leave to go work at Stony Brook. 2 times in the scene
Drew Dickson – Blending Behavior and Fundamentals at Albert Bridge Capital (First Meeting, EP.13)
- ▶ 6:22 Drew Dickson And in the mid eighties, late eighties, early nineties, there was this heretic group of economists, one of them being Richard Thaler, who was up at Cornell at the time.
Ash Fontana – Investing in Artificial Intelligence at Zetta Ventures (First Meeting, EP.11)
- ▶ 28:32 Ash Fontana My partner Mark's been on the board there for 15 years, and we cover NYU and Cornell from this New York office here.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy – O'Shaughnessy Asset Management (First Meeting, EP.01)
- ▶ 27:49 Patrick O'Shaughnessy So our co-CIO Chris Meredith is a professor at Cornell, and he gets to watch his very bright students, many of whom we end up hiring,
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.
- ▶ 9:47 Josh Wolfe And then from there, just would network everywhere and anywhere I could to somebody that was, you know, from Brooklyn, or maybe went to my high school, or ultimately when I went to Cornell, was a Cornellian that would give me a shot. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:19 Josh Wolfe I graduated Cornell, went into investment banking.
- ▶ 55:02 Josh Wolfe Cornell Tech is really run by this guy, Dan Huttenlocker, who's also on the Amazon board, very smart computer scientist, and it's great that Cornell is here in New York City, and I think there's going to be a lot of big competitive thrusts…
Ali Hamed - Novel Asset Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.40)
- ▶ 6:30 Ali Hamed Went to Cornell to play baseball, and while I was in high school, I fractured my back in a couple places.
- ▶ 10:16 Ali Hamed I think a lot of great companies have been built by people who are in their early to mid-twenties and were software engineers or CS majors at Cornell, Stanford, MIT, etc.
- ▶ 13:34 Ali Hamed And Thatcher was a Cornell alum who had
Michael Mauboussin – Active Challenges, Rational Decisions and Team Dynamics (Capital Allocators, EP.36)
- ▶ 6:11 Michael Mauboussin I grew up in Ithaca, New York, near Cornell.
Jim Dunn – Protect, Perform, Provide (Capital Allocators, EP.24)
Josh Brown – When Witchcraft Failed (Capital Allocators, EP.06)
- ▶ 14:06 Josh Brown Their sons and daughters went to Cornell.