Ivy League, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Ivy League comes up
Operator-Led Private Equity at Ethos - Erik Brooks (EP.504)
- ▶ 9:36 Eric Brooks I tried to make my parents proud, as we all try and do, applied to every Ivy League school. 2 times in the scene
Bobby Jain – Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund First Principles at Jain Global (EP.487)
- ▶ 24:16 Bobby Jain One of the things that I do separately from my day job is I've sat on the board of numerous investment committees, including two Ivy League, Harvard, and Cornell.
Friends Reunion 3 – Five Allocators Riff on Investing (EP.454)
- ▶ 12:33 Brett Barth Bigger dollars than Ivy League endowments that are over or underway.
- ▶ 25:53 Brett Barth The big Ivy League endowments haven't been huge private credit owners.
Mo Haghbin - Customizing Solutions from the Top Down at Invesco (EP.390)
- ▶ 44:15 Mo Haghbin You got to get into the Ivy League elementary school.
Tilly Franklin – Endowment Model at Cambridge University (EP.363)
- ▶ 30:16 Ted Seides So as we dive into the portfolio, I'd love to circle back of the history of this pool of capital, and then you think of Oxford and Cambridge as the equivalent of some of the, say, Ivy League institutions in the US, and yet these pools are…
Gary Sernovitz - Inside the CIO Seat (EP.357)
- ▶ 16:16 Gary Sernovitz I made some joke about the old days, Ivy slip streaming, and board of trustees, and we all know there's some legacy institutions that still operate where you have a big partner at a big private equity firm or a big bank, to ones where they…
Adam Karr – Extreme Alignment at Orbis (EP.338)
Jenn Birmingham – Organizational Alpha at PRINCO (EP. 336)
- ▶ 9:25 Scott McDonald What was it like coming from a Wall Street mentality to an Ivy League endowment?
Coach Paul Assaiante – Leading People to Greatness (Capital Allocators, EP.307)
- ▶ 31:22 Paul Assaiante And we were playing at one of the Ivy League schools, and I was standing next to a 120 year old man wearing a bow tie with his school colors.
- ▶ 40:39 Paul Assaiante One day, the president of the college, Evan Dobel, called me into his office, and this meeting honestly took about three minutes, and he said, coach, you play against the Ivy League schools. 3 times in the scene
Gregg Lemkau - The Evolution of MSD (Capital Allocators, EP.291)
- ▶ 5:38 Gregg Lemkau Basically we just paid for an Ivy League education.
Michael Rees – Inside GP Stakes at Dyal Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.278)
- ▶ 21:12 Michael Rees Well, I don't want to dodge the question, but when you look back at what the pushback entailed 20 years ago, most likely led by the Ivies, who said, I want my alternative managers to be the following.
- ▶ 57:42 Michael Rees In the GP Stakes business, there isn't a heavy leaning towards the Ivy League.
Carla Harris – Pearls of Career Wisdom (Capital Allocators, EP.267)
- ▶ 7:46 Carla Harris I didn't have any aspirations to go to Ivy League schools at all. 4 times in the scene
Brian Higgins - King Street Capital (Manager Meeting, EP. 21)
- ▶ 12:15 Brian Higgins At the time, it really had zero notice from Wall Street because they went to the Ivy's.
Rashmi Kwatra – Sixteenth Street Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.17)
- ▶ 16:27 Rashmi Kwatra and really worked to get into the best colleges, so they included several of the Ivy Leagues in the U.S., and I chose Wharton because of its speciality in investing in finance, and I knew that was a path I wanted to go down.
Bruce Martin – Still Lake Capital [Manager Meetings, EP.7)
- ▶ 13:26 Bruce Martin My MBA was at Northeastern, and they're used to hiring Ivy League exclusively.
Ted with Patrick O'Shaughnessy – Lessons from the World's Elite Money Managers (Capital Allocators, EP.184)
- ▶ 38:09 Ted Seides And that came out of, I won't say who it was, but it was a former CIO of an Ivy League institution.
Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
- ▶ 1:06:18 Shane Parrish It doesn't matter if you have an Ivy league education, just find the best people you can and associate yourself with them and make yourself indispensable.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 1: Jacob Walthour – A Blueprint for Diversity (Capital Allocators, EP.151)
- ▶ 7:37 Jake Walthour They went to Ivy League institutions.
Daylian Cain – Master Class in Negotiations (Capital Allocators, EP.138)
- ▶ 25:26 Daylian Cain Now, for many of my students, if they feel like they're a replaceable cog or a widget, and I think they overly feel this, they think I'm Ivy League educated, but there's a lot of Ivy League universities.
Dan Rasmussen – Private Equity Risk and Public Equity Opportunity at Verdad Advisers (First Meeting, EP.15)
- ▶ 34:37 Dan Rasmussen They went to a top Ivy League institution.
David Druley – Structure into Action at Cambridge Associates (Capital Allocators, EP. 106)
- ▶ 13:02 David Druley So went out and basically formed a business to serve Harvard and the Ivy Leagues and advise them.
Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital (First Meeting, EP.06)
- ▶ 7:33 Mike Novogratz Is that, you know, I was at ROTC, you know, back in 1983, when I graduated from high school, even the Ivy League, you know, while they gave financial aid, they didn't give great financial aid.
Mark Baumgartner – Luck, Risk and Uncertainty at the Institute for Advanced Study (Capital Allocators, EP.77)
- ▶ 33:42 Mark Baumgartner When we compare ourselves with peers, we've actually been able to keep up with the median, but we have not kept up with the ivies, for instance, and the ivies are
Kim Lew – The Carnegie Way (Capital Allocators, EP.52)
James Williams – Curating The Getty's Assets (Capital Allocators, EP.50)
- ▶ 28:36 Jim Williams We're not part of the Ivy League, so we are not competing with them. 2 times in the scene
Annie Duke - Improving Decision Making [Capital Allocators, EP.39]
- ▶ 5:16 Ted Seides Our conversation discusses Annie's path from an Ivy League education to professional poker, the nature of a bet, how we form beliefs, why we make bad decisions, and what we can do to improve our decision-making process.
- ▶ 6:14 Ted Seides Ivy League educated poker playing background.
Bill Spitz – Seasoned Commodore (Capital Allocators, EP.37)
- ▶ 5:50 Bill Spitz So we were actually, you know, for a southern, uh, not major Ivy League endowment,
Paul Johnson and Paul Sonkin – The Perfect Investment (Capital Allocators, EP.32)
- ▶ 39:53 Paul Johnson Not tall, six two, went to an Ivy League school.
- ▶ 45:18 Paul Johnson If I want creativity, I want novel, new, different, non-consensus, and yet I'm really attracted to the convention, Six-Two, Alpha Male, Ivy League...
- ▶ 47:54 Paul Johnson I like people that went to Ivy League schools, and you don't want to state it, or you haven't fully recognized it.
Jim Dunn – Protect, Perform, Provide (Capital Allocators, EP.24)
Kip McDaniel – CIO Whisperer (Capital Allocators, EP.20)
- ▶ 13:26 Kip McDaniel There are, there are huge exceptions to this rule, but I would say certainly a majority of the allocators would love to end their careers as a CIO of an Ivy League endowment, and they will make, take creative paths to go there.
Chris Douvos – Venture Capital's Super LP (Capital Allocators, EP.14)
- ▶ 24:25 Chris Douvos And in fact, we use lottery slogans with Ivy League veneer.
- ▶ 1:08:12 Chris Douvos It actually helps me understand kind of why people do certain things and understanding what people's incentives are, you know, uh, you know, in New Haven, they, you know, economic class might've, you know, given us a, you know, kind of…