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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Los Angeles comes up
Hotel Investing at EOS – Jonathan Wang (EP.506)
- ▶ 8:13 Jonathan Wang I grew up in Los Angeles, only child.
- ▶ 27:33 Jonathan Wang Is in seven large urban markets, so Boston, New York, DC, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, LA, and resorts, which the vast majority of the resorts that we invest in are up and down the East and West Coast.
- ▶ 56:20 Jonathan Wang Growing up in LA, I was a production assistant, otherwise known as a gopher, for a TV show called It's a Miracle, which was unsolved mysteries, but like, oh, it's a miracle.
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Credit Microcycles at Diameter (EP.484)
- ▶ 21:30 Jonathan Lewinsohn If you spend any time in places like Los Angeles, you now see the Waymos everywhere.
Lane MacDonald – Teamwork, Alignment, and Investing at the Highest Levels at SCS (EP.483)
- ▶ 58:46 Lane MacDonald I had breakfast with Charlie Munger at his home in LA.
Scott Kleinman – Apollo's Integrated Alternatives Platform (EP.481)
- ▶ 8:50 Scott Kleinman We had a handful of folks in New York and a handful of folks in LA, and that was the extent of Apollo.
Robert Boucai & James Broyer – Tax-Efficient Multifamily Real Estate at Newbrook (EP.475)
- ▶ 14:29 James Breuer They were expanding rapidly and they were in Los Angeles. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:14 Robert Bukai I mean, most of us in our business on the hedge fund side travel to San Francisco and Miami and Los Angeles and Boston.
Morgan Housel – The Art of Spending Money (EP.466)
- ▶ 21:16 Morgan Housel And then I went to college in Los Angeles. 4 times in the scene
Michael Ovitz – Reinventing Talent and Building Momentum at Treville (EP.455)
- ▶ 13:24 Michael Ovitz When I was just about to turn 17, and Universal Studios made a decision to do a tour on their lot, which now everyone knows is so huge, and it's a tourist attraction in LA, but it was very low-tech, very minimal number of people taken…
- ▶ 27:13 Michael Ovitz And then I knew that there was an agency in LA called Chayette Day, and I knew Jay Chayette.
- ▶ 53:06 Michael Ovitz We had contributed to the five big private schools at each level in Los Angeles, and happily so, by the way, because it was a double good thing.
- ▶ 55:01 Michael Ovitz LA is all transactional friendship. 2 times in the scene
James Clarke – Building Enduring Partnerships at Blue Owl (EP.445)
- ▶ 48:39 James Clark He bought this car in Los Angeles.
John Mathews – Steering the Largest Wirehouse at UBS (Private Wealth 2, EP.444)
- ▶ 26:46 John Matthews And that could be an example would be if you had a house in Los Angeles, the fires came through, and your house survived, but all your neighbors' houses were burned down, but there's no one there to protect your house and what's in your…
Michael Choe - Atomization of Private Equity Decisions at Charlesbank (EP.432)
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 7:59 Mitchell Green I begged to get back into Williams, got into Williams, did a couple of years investment banking, worked for a small investment bank out in LA called Barrington Associates, which I loved.
Ron Biscardi and Katie O'Reilly - Maximizing Value at Conferences (EP.425)
- ▶ 10:22 Katie O'Reilly But when you think about a marquee conference, there's ones, like I would say, the Milken Conference in LA, maybe FII in Riyadh, Davos.
Chris and Rob Michalik - Twin Tackle of Private Equity at Kinderhook (EP.416)
- ▶ 14:55 Chris and Rob Michalik Did not get an offer to return, and then spent my entire second year of business school interviewing, not exaggerating, probably had over a hundred phone interviews, 50 interviews, graduated from Harvard Business School without a job, and… 3 times in the scene
Stephen Nesbitt – Innovation in Private Markets for RIAs (EP.410)
- ▶ 46:14 Steve Nesbitt I spent a decade of my life, did LA, New York equivalent. 3 times in the scene
Todd Simkin - Game of Trading at Susquehanna (EP.399)
- ▶ 1:08:17 Todd Simkin When I got back from my trip to LA, he walked into my office, he said, I know that you can't disclose the scores or whatever, just tell me what each person had at the end of
Jeff Assaf - Protecting Clients and Assets at ICG (EP.398)
- ▶ 7:56 Jeff Assaf But his job when he finished training was in LA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:33 Jeff Assaf If you're going to be in Los Angeles, you have to come in, and they did.
Classic Deal - Burger King by 3G Capital (EP.384)
- ▶ 7:20 Ted Seides If you're headed to Los Angeles for Milken, you're likely buzzing with anticipation for the discussions you'll hear, people you'll see, and festivities you'll attend.
Shiloh Bates – CLO Investing at Flat Rock Global (EP.379)
- ▶ 3:23 Shiloh Bates And then two years later, I actually found myself working for that same CLO manager in Los Angeles.
- ▶ 45:14 Shiloh Bates I think I worked for six years on the buy side in Los Angeles.
Richard Sandler – The Prosecution of Michael Milken (EP.372)
- ▶ 9:16 Richard Sandler And he had worked at Touche Ross, the accounting firm in Los Angeles during the summer, and he stayed in LA and continued to work for the accounting firm during that quarter. 5 times in the scene
Michael Milken – Innovations in Finance, Medicine, and Education (EP.371)
- ▶ 10:45 Michael Milken But my career changed and my interest in undergrad changed with the Watts riots that occurred on August 1119 65 in Los Angeles.
- ▶ 30:27 Michael Milken I grew up in LA, went to graduate school in Philadelphia, of course, learned to hate the Celtics at a very young age.
Gary Sernovitz - Inside the CIO Seat (EP.357)
- ▶ 10:26 Gary Sernovitz In a LA to New York plain read, funny, but also pretty serious novel, what it means to be an investor today, and that is a window to what it means to be alive today.
Marcia Page – Corn Capitalist with a Velvet Hammer at Värde and MPowered (EP.355)
- ▶ 17:41 Marcia Page Bought it at about 50 cents on the dollar, went to a bank debt meeting, I believe it was in L.A.,
Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350)
- ▶ 12:34 Rick Heitzman So that took me out to Los Angeles, where I led the turnaround of a company that had gone public, 2 times in the scene
Alan Forman – Yale Endowment Real Estate (EP.340)
- ▶ 47:03 Alan Forman This was back in the early to mid-nineties, and they were pursuing massive distress in Los Angeles.
Kipp deVeer – The World of Private Credit at Ares (EP.329)
- ▶ 15:05 Kipp deVeer And that's when a couple of senior folks at Aries that was exclusively at the time in Los Angeles approached us. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:12 Kipp deVeer The rough breakdown today is about 700 in New York, 700 in L.A. and about 400 in London. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:38 unnamed speaker We've got a pretty substantial office in Chicago that'll go up to Toronto and goes as far south as Dallas, and then a big business obviously in LA that's working in Los Angeles and San Francisco for the most part. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:57 Kipp deVeer We got the boardroom in LA.
Don Mullen –Single-Family Rentals at Pretium (Capital Allocators, EP.324)
- ▶ 25:27 Don Mullen So when you look at older communities like the greater New York area, even the greater LA area, you have so many generations of house type built over the last 70 years that you couldn't get any uniformity of house type.
Eric Resnick – Ski, Golf, and Vacation Investing at KSL (EP.322)
- ▶ 40:05 Eric Resnick And we're in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Denver, soon to be LA, New York, Scottsdale.
Aaron Sack – Branded Middle Market Investing at Morgan Stanley (Capital Allocators, EP.311)
- ▶ 12:22 Aaron Sack Businesses located around the United States, not in New York, not in LA, San Francisco, generally.
Colin Campbell – The Case for Environmental Markets (Climate Solutions EP.3, Capital Allocators EP.302)
- ▶ 8:08 Colin Campbell In their corporate strategic planning group out in Los Angeles.
Dan Ivascyn – Fixed Income in the Limelight Again (Capital Allocators, EP.298)
- ▶ 7:00 Dan Ivascyn After going to undergrad, getting a degree in economics over at Occidental College in Los Angeles, I went over to T.
José E. Feliciano – Flexible Private Market Investing at Clearlake (Capital Allocators, EP. 297)
- ▶ 12:04 Jose Feliciano I finally found a job here in Los Angeles where I started to work for a small firm that did special situations, whatever that means.
Marshall Boyd – Meat and Potatoes Multi-Family Real Estate at IEC (Capital Allocators, EP.295)
- ▶ 20:08 Marshall Boyd You go down the coast and we're in Ventura from Santa Barbara down into LA on the coast, Orange County on the coast, and then in San Diego.
Gregg Lemkau - The Evolution of MSD (Capital Allocators, EP.291)
- ▶ 7:07 Gregg Lemkau Would you think about going to the LA office? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:51 Gregg Lemkau Had I not gone to LA, would I've met Gene Sykes, would I've developed the same way I did?
Neal Foard – The Art of Storytelling (Capital Allocators, EP.290)
- ▶ 49:52 Neal Foard We were driving on the Five, heading north from LA to Oakland, and we were in this old, and the water pump blew out.
Annie Duke – The Power of Quitting (Capital Allocators, EP.273)
- ▶ 48:25 Annie Duke They started thinking about it, and I think it was about 2008, and the idea was to build high-speed rail, like in Japan or other places, that would connect San Francisco and Silicon Valley to LA and San Diego to the south. 6 times in the scene
Matt Brown – Tidal Wave of Capital for Alternatives from Retail (Capital Allocators, EP.272)
- ▶ 4:35 Ted Seides Ahead of Case's inaugural Alternative Investment Summit, a three-day event bringing together senior leaders from the Alternative Asset Management and Independent Financial Advisor Communities on October 17th through 19th in Los Angeles.
- ▶ 38:09 Matt Brown But again, we have offices now in New York, LA, Austin, London.
Carla Harris – Pearls of Career Wisdom (Capital Allocators, EP.267)
- ▶ 8:02 Carla Harris Was to go to UCLA because my favorite aunt lived in LA.
Brent Montgomery – The Disney Flywheel at Wheelhouse (Capital Allocators, EP.265)
- ▶ 21:37 Brent Montgomery We just announced two shows for Netflix in Miami and LA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:16 Brent Montgomery It used to be if you were moving to LA, and you wanted to be an actress or an actor, you would go wait tables, and then more recently, you'd be driving Ubers.
- ▶ 50:29 Brent Montgomery But it is hard for San Antonio to now compete when guys are going to LA or New York and Miami to play because of all these other off-court activities.
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 38:17 Chris Dixon I've been spending time in LA, the media world, people in Hollywood in general, I think are very excited about web three.
Steve Drobny – Where the World is Going at Clocktower Group (Manager Meeting, 30)
- ▶ 23:14 Steve Drobny We've been doing this for a long time, and in 2014, being based in LA, seeing what was happening in Silicon Valley, seeing what's happening in technology, we thought there's a real opportunity to get involved in technology here, but not in…
- ▶ 27:37 Paula Volent And on the geography part, you were very early in putting your stakes down in LA, particularly in Malibu, which is now like an echo center of smart people in the investment world. 12 times in the scene
Marko Papic – Geopolitical Shock in a Multi-Polar World (Capital Allocators, EP.237)
- ▶ 20:47 Marko Papic If Iran asked that we rename Los Angeles to New Tehran, I think the Biden administration would do it.
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 1:00:04 Fabrice Grinda It'll no longer just be in New York and San Francisco or LA.
Jamie Montgomery – March Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.26)
- ▶ 33:48 Jamie Montgomery But we also extended our programs in the inner city of Los Angeles to fund after school programs and programs to train and transition youth from troubled backgrounds into workforce.
Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
- ▶ 36:24 Doc O'Connor My son, even though he grew up in Los Angeles, California, is a New York Giants fan.
Paula Volent – Star Endowment Manager's Next Act at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.219)
- ▶ 8:23 Paula Volent Studied with a bunch of people, so it was a two-year program, and then you needed to do two years of internships, so I went to San Francisco to the Palace of the Legion of Fine Arts, and then I went to Los Angeles, the LA County Museum of… 2 times in the scene
Matt Spielman – Executive Coaching in Asset Management (Capital Allocators, EP.210)
- ▶ 11:17 Matt Spielman One of my classmates, section mates, actually said, hey, Matt, how'd you like to run sales, marketing, and business development, and help us raise money for a thirteen-person web hosting company in Los Angeles?
- ▶ 12:29 Matt Spielman I was in Los Angeles and I didn't necessarily have family in Los Angeles, not necessarily like a built-in friend network there. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:04 Matt Spielman In my career, going back 20 plus years ago to be, okay, I know we were going to live together in New York City, and you were working at a record label, and now you have this opportunity in Los Angeles.
Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap –Inside the Sausage Factory of the Caesar's Restructuring (Capital Allocators, EP.209)
- ▶ 23:01 Max Frumes Another fund that is known for distressed debt investing is also California, Los Angeles based fund.
Crypto for Institutions 4: Ari Paul – Exploiting Inefficiencies in Crypto Trading (Capital Allocators, EP.183)
Alex Shahidi and Damien Bisserier – Uncorrelated Return and Balanced Risk at Evoke-ARIS (Capital Allocators, EP.179)
- ▶ 12:30 Damien Bisserier And Alex said, well, you know, I'm not going to move my family cross country could, because he was living in Los Angeles. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:30 Alex Shahidi We're in Los Angeles, so there's a lot of entertainment type clients.
David Baran and Kazuhiko Shibata – Friendly Activism in Japan at Symphony (Capital Allocators, EP.176)
- ▶ 5:41 David Baran In Los Angeles as a film major, and my father came to Japan to work for McCann Erickson Hakuhodo as a producer.
Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
- ▶ 48:09 Shane Parrish So you can drive really fast in circles around a track, or you can drive from LA to New York.
Adam Fisher – Blending Global Macro and Real Estate at Commonwealth Asset Management (First Meeting, EP.21)
- ▶ 15:55 Adam Fisher I was in LA because my family lives here.
Sustainable Investing 4: Emanuel Citron – Sourcing Sustainable Managers (Capital Allocators, EP.142)
- ▶ 36:34 Manny Citron It's RRG is a sustainable ag and water real assets manager based in Los Angeles, has been in business for almost 15 years, and when we were introduced to RRG, we had begun mapping a landscape of sustainable ag managers.
Daniel Adamson – Innovation from Asset Giants at Capital Constellation (EP.136)
- ▶ 1:00:41 Daniel Adamson So, you know, we got together as I think I mentioned in places like New Zealand, Tokyo, Amsterdam, the Hague, Stockholm, London, LA, San Francisco, New York.
Greg Fleming – Building and Running Rockefeller Capital Management (Capital Allocators, EP.125)
- ▶ 27:23 Greg Fleming We have a presence in Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco.
Beezer Clarkson – Sapphire Gem of Early Stage Venture (Capital Allocators, EP.120)
- ▶ 36:01 Beezer Clarkson Or somebody will say, you know, it's not just the Bay Area, New York, LA, Boston.
Jason Karp – From Hedge Funds to Health and Wellness at HumanCo (First Meeting, EP.12)
- ▶ 27:10 Jason Karp There's more influx into Austin from LA, San Fran, and New York than any other city, and the reasons are sort of obvious. 2 times in the scene
Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
- ▶ 39:40 Jonathan Tepper And so there was a famous case, some grocery stores in Los Angeles that were going to merge and achieve seven percent market share.
Joe Lonsdale – Entrepreneurship and 8VC (First Meeting, EP.09)
- ▶ 17:05 Joe Lonsdale The way I like to put it is in LA, if you want to know what's going on, you probably want to hang out with the A-list actors and like the people who manage them.
Ash Williams – Florida SBA's Reigning Chief (Capital Allocator, EP.104)
- ▶ 40:47 Ash Williams Not the way people are in jobs in New York or Los Angeles, where there are a million alternative employers right around the corner, and if you're unhappy at point A, you can cross the street and go to point B and take another job.
Khe Hy – Radical Shift from Investing to Purpose (Capital Allocators, EP.101)
Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)
- ▶ 35:20 Ron Biscardi So we have a New York chapter, LA, Orange County, and San Francisco.
Jen Prosek – Branding an Asset Management Firm (Capital Allocators, EP.81)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Jennifer Prosek, the founder and CEO of Prosek Partners, a leading international public relations and financial communications consultancy with offices in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Connecticut.
- ▶ 9:25 Jennifer Prosek A 190 people, and offices in New York, London, LA, Boston, and I'm sure I'm missing one.
Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75)
- ▶ 52:15 Michael Lombardi He lives in Los Angeles.
Ben Reiter – Moneyball 2.0 (Capital Allocators, EP.64)
- ▶ 24:41 Ben Reiter And I caught up with Jim Crane on the field in Los Angeles after game seven.
Charley Ellis - Indexing and Its Alternatives (EP.62)
- ▶ 19:11 Charlie Ellis Some in London, some in Hong Kong, some in Singapore, some in Tokyo, some in Los Angeles.
James Williams – Curating The Getty's Assets (Capital Allocators, EP.50)
- ▶ 10:00 Jim Williams You're going to fly out to Los Angeles.
- ▶ 28:45 Jim Williams So they can come to us and maybe fill up a really top tier fund with a nice, wonderful group of people from Los Angeles.
Michael Mauboussin – Active Challenges, Rational Decisions and Team Dynamics (Capital Allocators, EP.36)
- ▶ 8:23 Ted Seides Drexel was known for what was happening in LA with Milken at the Times.
Meredith Jenkins – A Path to Trinity (Capital Allocators, EP.31)
- ▶ 6:02 Meredith Jenkins Because you're, you're carrying all the books, and you're worried, you know, a couple of them were in the winter, and you're worried about the snow, and whether you're gonna get to where you need to be, and you know, you're in LA, and…
David Barrett – Searching for Leaders (Capital Allocators, EP.26)
- ▶ 7:24 David Barrett At a college and business school, I was an equity analyst, and my career, uh, peaked at Trust Company of the West in the late eighties as an electric utilities analyst, and quickly learned that my attention span was not up to what it was…
Jim Dunn – Protect, Perform, Provide (Capital Allocators, EP.24)
Charley Ellis – Multiple Ways to Win (Capital Allocators, EP.08)
- ▶ 15:55 Charlie Ellis There was one out in Los Angeles, and there might be one in Chicago that might not, depending on how you would define a mutual fund organization, and it was very low-key, quiet, easy-going line of work, and then, as I said, most of it was…
- ▶ 28:40 Charlie Ellis I'm still responsible for deciding, am I going to Chicago or Los Angeles or London?