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Rebuilding the NYU Endowment – Michelle Knudsen (EP.513)
- ▶ 2:07 Ted Seides Our conversation traces Michelle's lessons learned working at Goldman Sachs, a growing OCIO, and a foundation
- ▶ 9:14 Michelle Knudsen The fall of my senior year, I got a call from Goldman Sachs. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:33 Michelle Knudsen I spent the two years at Goldman trying to figure out what I wanted to do longer term.
- ▶ 23:37 Michelle Knudsen Whether I called somebody that I had worked with at Goldman who was working on a muni desk now because I was trying to get deeper into treasury functions for fixed income RV strategies, and he connected me with somebody at 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:54 Michelle Knudsen It seemed like such a fantastic opportunity to deploy all of the learning that I had gathered in my time at Partners and Goldman and Mellon into building a best-in-class investment office.
- ▶ 53:55 Ted Seides From your formative experience at Goldman, you talked about trying to understand what the downside could look like and that you could tolerate it.
- ▶ 1:10:30 Michelle Knudsen The second person is Will Fox, who was the managing partner in the US at Partners Capital when I joined after Goldman.
Economic Growth, Governance, and Capital Allocation – Dambisa Moyo (EP.510)
- ▶ 38:09 Baroness Dambisa Moyo I'd worked at Goldman Sachs for nearly a decade.
- ▶ 43:38 Baroness Dambisa Moyo He was at Tepper for a long time, ex-Goldman as well.
- ▶ 50:24 Baroness Dambisa Moyo From my years at Goldman Sachs, I brought a lot of macro traders. 2 times in the scene
Hotel Investing at EOS – Jonathan Wang (EP.506)
- ▶ 9:00 Jonathan Wang Fortunate to get a job doing investment banking at Goldman Sachs after college. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:48 Jonathan Wang When I was at Goldman, that's how that business model generally worked.
- ▶ 58:54 Jonathan Wang After I took my job at Goldman, I told her what I was doing.
Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
- ▶ 37:41 Rajiv Jain As I think there's Lloyd Blankfein in an article in Fortune, he said at Goldman, they will run parallel systems for years because these are real numbers.
Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
- ▶ 8:01 Alex Sloane I was in investment banking at Goldman.
Promote Giving – A New Model for Performance-Driven Giving (EP.496)
- ▶ 7:06 Joel Holsinger It was some ex Goldman Sachs partners and others that were starting a specialty finance group.
Jeremy Grantham – Bubbles, Value Investing, and the Long Game at GMO (EP.493)
- ▶ 28:53 Jeremy Grantham You will never hit a Goldman Sachs or a JP Morgan
- ▶ 33:02 Jeremy Grantham Less than one percent of the engine room who worked for the Goldman Sachs and the JP Morgans believed in data that it was a new golden era.
Gavin Baker – Truth-Seeking and Crossover Investing at Atreides (EP.489)
- ▶ 16:41 Gavin Baker I'd interviewed at Goldman Sachs for investment banking. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:05 Gavin Baker From a business perspective, your former colleague, Mike Barron, who now is at Goldman Sachs, he gave me very good advice starting a tradies.
Bobby Jain – Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund First Principles at Jain Global (EP.487)
- ▶ 8:36 Bobby Jain I wouldn't have heard of Goldman Sachs till I was 21, but Hunter High School had a program where you only had to take two classes as a senior.
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Credit Microcycles at Diameter (EP.484)
- ▶ 17:29 Jonathan Lewinsohn Because no matter what happens, no matter what recession we have, JP Morgan, Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, they're not unplugging their cybersecurity.
Lane MacDonald – Teamwork, Alignment, and Investing at the Highest Levels at SCS (EP.483)
- ▶ 31:22 Lane MacDonald Great group of folks had come from the traditional model, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, and just didn't believe in the model.
- ▶ 56:20 Lane MacDonald The big Apollos, Blackstones, Goldman's, those are machines.
Scott Kleinman – Apollo's Integrated Alternatives Platform (EP.481)
- ▶ 22:10 Scott Kleinman If I just went to Deutsche Bank or Goldman Sachs to their trading desk and said, give me IBM, all the traded IG stuff, all that excess return is going to be squeezed out of that by the time I'm showing up at a bank's desk to buy that
Mike Gitlin – The Century of Capital Group (EP.479)
- ▶ 25:34 Ted Seides You think of like a Goldman partnership in the old days. 2 times in the scene
Year in Review 2025 (EP.478)
- ▶ 43:21 Ted Seides That when I was graduating college and I was interviewing at Goldman Sachs Investment Banking alongside of Yale, and I ended up not getting the offer at Goldman and ended up getting the job at Yale and went to Yale, my late uncle was the… 4 times in the scene
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 1:34 Ted Seides Our conversation covers Alex's path to running Whale Rock, shaped by early exposure to the markets through his father, a longtime partner at Goldman Sachs, and his formative years at Fidelity.
- ▶ 4:07 Alex Sacerdote He was longtime Goldman Sachs partner. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:38 Alex Sacerdote Goldman Sachs can apply AI, but a banker is living in the real world, at least for now.
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 11:47 Josh Wolfe If you can reach a hundred billion plus AUM and be a diversified player like that, different fund strategies, different thematic funds, different geographies, there'll probably be demand for the players like the Dyals and the Newbergers…
- ▶ 16:39 Josh Wolfe You have one end of the venture ecosystem that is institutional hierarchical, almost like a Goldman partnership, lots of gradations.
Michael Kelly – Democratizing Access to the Middle Market at Future Standard (EP.473)
- ▶ 23:05 Mike Kelly I'd hired Andrew Beckman, who I knew from Goldman Sachs and Magnetar.
David Lyon – Hybrid Capital Solutions for Private Assets (EP.471)
- ▶ 7:43 David Lyon Her husband was a partner at Goldman, and she asked, what is your son doing? 2 times in the scene
Jay Ripley – Emerging Manager Selection at GEM (EP.470)
- ▶ 28:39 Jay Ripley As you get larger and get into the multi-billion dollar fund sizes, it's here's a Goldman auction book with a Bain report and stapled financing.
Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)
- ▶ 12:20 Dave Thornton It was comprised of banks that were getting into the private markets and had wealth management businesses, so JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Citigroup, Wells, UBS.
Jeff Aronson – Building Centerbridge Across the Capital Structure (EP.468)
- ▶ 15:43 Jeff Aronson Goldman raised a third-party fund called the Wall Street Fund back then.
Michael Ovitz – Reinventing Talent and Building Momentum at Treville (EP.455)
- ▶ 30:58 Michael Ovitz Of Lazard, and I met the guys that ran Goldman Sachs, and all of a sudden, I'm having lunch with these guys, and they're talking with a different vocabulary than I am. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:47 Michael Ovitz To get back to Ollie, I have a very close friend named Eric Lane who ran GSAM for a long time.
Josh Koplewicz – Flexible Capital and Creative Structures at Thayer Street (EP.451)
- ▶ 1:18 Ted Seides We discussed the lessons he learned at Goldman Sachs and his transition from scrappy dealmaker to fund manager.
- ▶ 4:11 Josh Kopowitz I didn't totally understand how to connect working on those things into a linear career path, but it was something definitely of interest, and I was fortunate enough to have someone that was leading recruiting at Goldman Sachs, former… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:51 Ted Seides In your time at Goldman, when do you remember starting to connect the dots between the interest in real estate and small businesses and the financing around it? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:52 Ted Seides So you were part of a long line of people at Goldman in and around different parts of the capital structure that ultimately left to form their own funds. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:46 Josh Kopowitz Some folks have been at Coleman, but other institutional firms where they're investing in the same business, financial and real estate services, combination of debt and equity, but they did it at a larger scale.
- ▶ 53:43 Josh Kopowitz The other one is probably, this is a bit of a cheat, but it's probably no one person, but it's different elements and attributes of some of my colleagues at Goldman.
Michael Sidgmore – Alternatives Go Mainstream (Private Wealth 1, EP.443)
- ▶ 7:05 Ted Seides Michael's career spans early roles at Goldman Sachs and iCapital, experience building businesses in fintech and asset management, and investing across the private market ecosystem.
- ▶ 9:59 Michael Sidgmore Then I ended up working at Goldman Sachs, so was in London on a team.
- ▶ 34:45 Michael Sidgmore So why did Goldman Sachs, as an example, launch Apex, which is family office platform for their ultra high net worth clients?
- ▶ 42:59 Michael Sidgmore Goldman had a report on evergreens in the fall of twenty-twenty-four, and there's really only in the U.S. at the time, there's like 200 evergreen funds.
Meghan Reynolds – Art of Capital Formation (EP.438)
- ▶ 2:23 Ted Seides Megan joined Brad three years ago after decade-long stints at Goldman Sachs and TPG.
- ▶ 5:51 Megan Reynolds So I started my career at Goldman Sachs. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:15 Megan Reynolds Goldman was an investor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:10 Megan Reynolds And what I mean by that, it is not enough to say we took this team from Goldman Sachs who ran the Special Situations group there and aren't they very talented?
- ▶ 20:34 Megan Reynolds When I left TPG, I was co-leading the fundraising group there, which was a team of about 40 or 50 people with a partner of mine that I had worked with from the time that I was an intern at Goldman. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:01 Ted Seides Quite different, I would imagine, sitting at altimeter doing one strategy than at a TPG or Goldman where there's just lots of different inputs and strategies that people may be interested in. 3 times in the scene
Brett Barth and Evan Roth – Stewarding Family Wealth at BBR (EP.433)
- ▶ 9:00 Evan Roth Brett and I both came from Goldman and our other founding partners also came from big banks and say, there are some flaws in that model.
- ▶ 13:29 Evan Roth This is not to pick on Goldman. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:22 Brett Barth For us as founders, we all had mentors at Goldman and at GAM that we could look up to, but as Evan said, we were pretty young when we started this business.
- ▶ 24:59 Brett Barth I came from a background in derivatives and trading at the end when I was at Goldman.
- ▶ 46:09 Brett Barth I mean, one of the things that I loved post Oh eight are things like the Volcker rule, which took Goldman and Morgan Stanley out of proprietary trading businesses.
- ▶ 1:12:29 Evan Roth Spent a couple years at Goldman, and then was out for dinner with my dad at Yomalino, I actually remember this, in West Village, and we finished dinner and go outside, and I say, Dad, I'm ready to come home, and I'm ready to 2 times in the scene
Ian Charles - Private Equity's New Rules (EP.431)
- ▶ 15:19 Ian Charles They look more like Goldman Sachs than they look like Arctos.
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 13:43 Mitchell Green In early April of eight, he said to me, Hey, I want you to go to the Goldman internet conference and meet a bunch of companies, Ctrip and Baidu and Alibaba.
- ▶ 14:29 Mitchell Green We bought out Goldman Steak in in 2004 when I launched the fund.
Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)
- ▶ 8:04 Jonathan Farber Sent out some resumes and was hired in the investment research group at Goldman. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:29 Jonathan Farber The core concept is something that both John and I really saw firsthand at Goldman.
- ▶ 1:06:54 John Reynolds It was when I had a job offer at Goldman Sachs that was 32,000 dollars, and a job offer from a European bank that was 39,000 dollars. 6 times in the scene
Asset Management Consolidation - Simon Krinsky, Hall Capital and Tim McCusker, NEPC (EP.421)
- ▶ 9:26 Simon Krinsky So I joined our firm 23 years ago from Goldman Sachs, and the couple things I recall, one was this just breath of fresh air of, wait, maybe this might be a better way to manage money for very, very wealthy families, independent,…
Matt Bank - "GEMs" of Risk, Asset Allocation, and Manager Selection (EP.419)
- ▶ 6:44 Matt Bank Decided to work at a law firm, thought that gave me some optionality coming out, and within a year was fortunate enough that the recruiter at Goldman saw enough on my resume to offer me a job there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:08 Matt Bank I'll credit a partner at Goldman who took me under his wing pretty early in my career there and was instrumental in my having an ability to grow at that firm.
Scott Bessent - Macro Maven (EP.415)
- ▶ 15:04 Scott Bessent The mid to late-ish eighties, there was kind of this tradition of management breakfast that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley would host a management breakfast for a company, and over those years, I'd gotten to be friendly with Jim Chanos,…
Ricky Sandler - Evolution of Long-Short Equity Investing (EP.414)
- ▶ 7:47 Ricky Sandler My dad was a cable and cellular analyst at Goldman Sachs before he went out on his own as a hedge fund manager, and then was a manager that ran a very concentrated portfolio, seven stocks all in the same factors and industries.
Brad Briner - Family Office to Public Service (EP.413)
- ▶ 11:28 Brad Briner So I had worked at Goldman Sachs one summer in college and had planned to go back there, just do the Wall Street investment banking thing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:25 Brad Briner So I interned at Goldman in the summer of 97, and it was an equity research, and this was when Goldman was still a private partnership. 3 times in the scene
Kristof Gleich – Boutique Managers and Active ETFs at Harbor Capital (EP.411)
- ▶ 1:37 Ted Seides Our conversation covers the lessons Christoph learned about culture from his time at Goldman Sachs and J.P.
- ▶ 3:36 Kristof Gleich I got my first job in the business at Goldman Sachs. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:12 Kristof Gleich So I began that journey at Goldman Sachs in London within GSAM.
- ▶ 5:34 Ted Seides I'd love to hear from your experience about the different cultures, the Goldman and JP Morgan. 10 times in the scene
Rahul Moodgal – Master Fund Raiser Returns (EP.408)
- ▶ 23:37 Rahul Moodgal I'll say, can you tell me about the mistakes you've made and the lessons you've learned and people freak out and they'll either say, oh, when I was at Goldman Sachs, they cut the risk at the wrong time.
- ▶ 43:27 Rahul Moodgal The first person is a gentleman called Mark Williams, who co-ran FX at Goldman Sachs, and
Jase Auby - Risk, Size, and Talent at Texas Teachers (EP.404)
- ▶ 7:12 Jace Auby Got a job at Goldman Sachs. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:20 Jace Auby My progression is, I spent three years at Goldman, and then some folks left Goldman and went over to Lehman Brothers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:26 Jace Auby And then I had an early mentor at Goldman Sachs who taught me the way.
David Eichhorn - Serving Clients and Reducing Risk at NISA (EP.403)
- ▶ 16:10 David Eichhorn Jess Yowitz, Bill Marshall, they were professors at Washington University and left in mid eighties to go to Goldman Sachs to kind of build up their financial strategies group. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:33 David Eichhorn Jess became the first chief investment officer of GSAM when they started it.
- ▶ 29:54 David Eichhorn They were like, no, no, no, we're whomever, Goldman Sachs, or JP Morgan, or whatever.
Jeff Assaf - Protecting Clients and Assets at ICG (EP.398)
- ▶ 9:07 Jeff Assaf Kidder, Goldman, Oppenheimer, whatever.
Jennifer Prosek – Nailing the Narrative (EP.396)
- ▶ 16:45 Jennifer Prosek So when you're a startup entrepreneur in your twenties, you don't have the luxury of, I used to work at Goldman Sachs and here's my amazing network.
Graham Weaver – People-Driven Private Equity at Alpine (EP.391)
- ▶ 42:10 Graham Weaver Our sourcing almost by definition has to be a lot more direct sourcing, because if you think about it, let's say you're a bank, you're Goldman Sachs, and you're going to sell a company.
Dan Tennebaum - The Case for India at India Capital (EP.387)
- ▶ 26:59 Dan Tannenbaum And the software programmer I mentioned, he was at Goldman before this.
Cliff Asness - Simple Investing is Hard (EP.385)
- ▶ 12:42 Cliff Asness Then after, I don't know, three years there, my best friend and one of my Wharton professors were at Goldman Sachs running a relatively new fixed income group. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:57 Cliff Asness Literally, since our Goldman Sachs days, this is more than 25 years ago, we've generally used half a backtest out of sample as a bogey.
- ▶ 24:58 Cliff Asness We had always planned to replicate what we did at Goldman, which was a broad set of both alternative investments and traditional, more constrained ones using the same models, different risk levels, but we decided to lead with our most… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:16 Cliff Asness So this is a twenty-nine-year-old deep cut when we did our first version of a long, short, aggressive fund at Goldman.
Jonathan Tepper - Buying Monopolies at Prevatt Capital (EP.375)
- ▶ 32:05 Jonathan Tepper It was written by a former Goldman banker who is teaching finance, and he was pointing out that media itself tends to lead towards
Michael Leffell – Opening Doors to Niche Private Opportunities at 10 East (EP.373)
- ▶ 13:23 Michael Leffell I think Goldman Sachs, Oppenheimer & Company, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns.
- ▶ 35:43 Michael Leffell If you own stocks and bonds, it's pretty easy to go to Goldman Sachs or Schwab and see what you own.
- ▶ 40:04 Michael Leffell We are seeing incredible enthusiasm from our membership in this because they are seeing opportunities that they would not get from JP Morgan or Citibank or Goldman Sachs, and that's not in any way to disparage those firms.
Michael Milken – Innovations in Finance, Medicine, and Education (EP.371)
- ▶ 5:20 Ted Seides Goldman Sachs, Jeffries, Leonard Green, and Mollis.
- ▶ 27:55 Ted Seides And if I just run off the founders of Apollo, Aries, Blackstone, Canyon, Crescent, Mollus, Richard Handler, CEO of Jeffries, David Solomon at Goldman Sachs.
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