employee

“I would say 99% of the time we don't have bad employees. We have horrible leadership and we don't supervise and we don't provide support.”

“I will tell you that we find that in every company, when the gap between how Leadership feels about the company and how the rank and file employees feel about the company. As this gap grows, it's a good sign to short the stock.”

“If the entrepreneurs and the employees are not getting the rewards that they need to stay in the business, then this whole business stops. Like GPs and LPs can't make this business go. It is a hundred percent the people making the companies go.”

“Shareholder is lowest ranked in Japan. I should say past tense, not current tense. Shareholder was the lowest ranked. Employee, client, So the total stakeholder, shareholder is the bottom. That has been a long time concept, or Japanese community.”

“And if you find that people are complaining equally at management and at the level of the employee, this is not as a bad signal as if management is not complaining and employees are complaining much more.”

“Four or five years later, when I stepped back to a board-only role, I think the business was probably 175 mil in revenue, probably like 506 hundred employees, so grown a lot, learned a lot from that.”

“We've always been the head of the pack in terms of how much money we put in our own deals, and every one of the partners does that, and every one of the employees does that, is they're investing their deals.”