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Tim Sullivan – Yale's Private Portfolio (EP.456)
- ▶ 7:01 Tim Sullivan When David Swenson got the job in 1985, there were no articles in the Wall Street Journal about him getting a job at Yale Endowment.
- ▶ 10:41 Tim Sullivan One insight David had early on particularly was financial engineering as a commodity. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:06 Tim Sullivan And it was really the period in time where David made his reputation. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:58 Tim Sullivan We also always had an appreciation for what does leverage mean relative to your return, and David was one of the first people to think about
- ▶ 1:03:35 Tim Sullivan David had some great insights about what is it going to take to succeed in these two investment strategies.
- ▶ 1:07:50 Tim Sullivan One of David's true talents was he was really good at a lot of different things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:46 Tim Sullivan Whereas we want to make a huge amount of money in China, as China opened up as an investment opportunity, but a lot of that happened because of our relationship with Lei Zhang, who founded Hill House, and he happened to go to Yale's…
- ▶ 1:16:20 Tim Sullivan One is David, obviously. 4 times in the scene