Grinnell College

3 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 16, 2018 by Steve Galbraith · said 18 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Apr 16, 2018 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Galbraith: Buffett turned a $5M TV station investment into a 10-bagger at Grinnell
“He put like a third of the endowment into TV stations. And he did it on a highly levered basis, so they put in, like, five million dollars of equity to make a seventy million dollar investment, and it was like a ten-bagger.”
Steve Galbraith Apr 16, 2018 ▶ 21:00 Steven Galbraith – In the Boardroom (Capital Allocators, EP.48)
Oct 5, 2020 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Grinnell turned $73 million in principal into a $1 billion endowment
“Over that timeframe, I think over that timeframe, they only took in seventy million dollars in gifts and turned three million into over a billion dollars.”
Scott Wilson Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 16:53 Scott Wilson – Concentrated Investing at Washington University-St. Louis (Capital Allocators, EP. 159)
Oct 5, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Grinnell's endowment often held over 10% in single stock positions
“So if you look at the biggest investments in Grinnell's history, it wasn't uncommon for them to have north of 10% of the portfolio in a single individual name.”
Scott Wilson Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 16:15 Scott Wilson – Concentrated Investing at Washington University-St. Louis (Capital Allocators, EP. 159)
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