Farallon Capital

“And then over time, I was Goldman's biggest clearing customer.”

“When I asked two different people if they would basically back me with limited partner money, one of them was a firm in San Francisco where the number three person was my old roommate. It's called Hellman and Friedman, and I think they guaranteed me eight mill…”

“One is I was very clear for years before I left at the end of 2012 that the person who was going to take over was Andrew Spokes. And so that was no surprise to anybody. I said it for eight years beforehand.”

“If you get beyond a 125 people, you really can't manage informally. You have to have systems and processes and hierarchies and rules.”

“You can't fake excellence. If you're going to hire somebody, if they're not excellent coming in, they're not going to do an excellent job. That is an overwhelming fact of life, and that is something that I'm not sure everybody believes right now, but that is s…”

“I pitched Doug Martin from the Stevens family that I had served on the board with when I was at the firm prior and done a really nice job for that company. And he observed that from being on the board from a company. So he was interested in backing me. And the…”