David Swensen, every mention

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▶ 14:50 Mark Baumgartner Jack started at the Weyerhaeuser Pension Fund in 1985, the same year that Dave Swenson started at Yale.

▶ 13:08 Ted Seides Dave Swenson, in our business, wrote his seminal work in 2000, and all the sudden, people in the investment world started investing in alternatives, because that's what Yale was doing, and it was working.

▶ 50:07 Charlie Ellis You and I both have tremendous admiration for David Swenson at Yale. 4 times in the scene
▶ 53:15 Ted Seides On the other hand, structurally, and David had said, it's sort of the purest form of capitalism because all of these behavioral issues disappear if you give your money somebody for 10 years and let them go buy businesses and fix them up.

▶ 46:17 Kim Lew So I'm as much of a Swenson Acolyte as anybody else, right? 3 times in the scene

▶ 19:54 Steve Galbraith At Yale, David reports into Solovey, and so some of that may just be because of his status and what he's done, but I do think it matters. 2 times in the scene

▶ 5:29 Khe Hy You worked for one of the legends of investing, David Swenson. 3 times in the scene
▶ 7:57 Ted Seides And so I decided to go back into the kind of work I was doing at Yale, and had an offer to go back to Yale at the time, and didn't, ended up in a sort of backing into an entrepreneurial situation, which all of a sudden everyone wanted to… 3 times in the scene
▶ 55:20 Ted Seides My, my, my old boss, Dave Swenson, who is just a remarkable and brilliant man, gave, he doesn't speak publicly that much, but he gave a speech earlier this week, and one of the things he got asked about artificial intelligence, and one of…

▶ 17:36 Wayne Wicker Folks that, Ted, you know, and David Swenson, who was there from Yale.

▶ 5:07 Ted Seides Looking back, and you started managing Vanderbilt Endowment in 1985, which happens to be a banner year for those who really know, mostly because you started at Vanderbilt, and secondarily because it happens to be the same year Dave Swenson… 2 times in the scene
▶ 8:19 Ted Seides Because in 1985, you couldn't read Dave Swenson's book that he wrote 15 years later. 3 times in the scene
▶ 17:43 Bill Spitz You know, Dave Swenson has said, and I agree with him, that the ultimate form of capitalism is private equity, and I really agree with that, because, you know, you have a long time horizon, you're not beholden to quarterly numbers, and you…
▶ 30:09 Bill Spitz I heard an interview recently with Dave Swenson, and he said manager selection is about people, people, people, and I agree with him a hundred percent.

▶ 51:56 Ted Seides And on the investment management side, the Scott Malpasses, Andy Goldens, Dave Swenson's of the world can try things with no career risk that someone who's two, three, four years in a new seat couldn't possibly risk.

▶ 21:02 Margaret Chen You don't get the Andy Goldens, you know, you don't get the David Swenson's like that, that they're, they're like the outliers now, where they used to be the norm.
▶ 47:17 Margaret Chen The fact that, you know, David Swenson or Scott Mopass were hired in their twenties and early thirties, that won't happen today again, but that's what forced folks to say, you know what?

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