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Moat Investing Nuances – Pat Dorsey (EP.509)
- ▶ 30:48 Pat Dorsey You look at some of the larger McKinsey studies of acquisitions, generally pretty bad.
Michael Choe - Atomization of Private Equity Decisions at Charlesbank (EP.432)
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 31:16 Mitchell Green So they almost act as our version of McKinsey, but that version of McKinsey helps us win. 2 times in the scene
Matt Miller – Crossing the Energy Divide at Grey Rock (EP.412)
- ▶ 9:52 Matt Miller And went from there to the University of Virginia and on to McKenzie's. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:57 Matt Miller So I started out at McKinsey being solar is the answer.
- ▶ 15:50 Matt Miller And then I had that McKinsey toolkit to make a really pretty PowerPoint.
Rob Small and Anil Seetharam - Public Equity Adjacent to Private Equity at Stockbridge (EP.397)
- ▶ 7:11 Anil Seetharam I worked at McKinsey in consulting for a couple of years and then started at Berkshire Partners actually as an associate on the private equity side of the house.
Training Grounds: Bain Capital, John Connaughton (EP.395)
- ▶ 7:16 John Connaughton To take you back, you have to go back to 1973 because Bain and company was started on a very different premise as a consulting firm versus McKinsey and BCG and Booz Allen.
Graham Weaver – People-Driven Private Equity at Alpine (EP.391)
- ▶ 11:56 Graham Weaver and I think I was pretty close to go to McKinsey. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:54 Graham Weaver and you would work on if you were at McKinsey.
Dan Tennebaum - The Case for India at India Capital (EP.387)
- ▶ 40:30 Dan Tannenbaum So something considerably short of, I don't know, KKR sending six McKinsey teams to crawl over a deal for a year, but an unusually intensive piece of research for Indian public markets.
Brett Barakett - Digging for the Puck at Tremblant Capital (EP.386)
- ▶ 27:49 Brett Barakett So it's basically if you brought McKinsey into a business and said,
Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler (EP.369)
- ▶ 10:13 Magnus Grimeland So I joined McKinsey because I want to work with tech companies all across the globe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:52 Magnus Grimeland So for me, the plan was to stay in McKinsey for two years and then start something. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:08 Magnus Grimeland My time in McKinsey was very impactful. 3 times in the scene
Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
- ▶ 22:34 Brad Jacobs And then I would talk to McKinsey.
Tilly Franklin – Endowment Model at Cambridge University (EP.363)
- ▶ 7:38 Tilly Franklin So I was then fortunate to get a job with McKinsey, one of the large consulting firms. 2 times in the scene
Nicolai Tangen – Overseeing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund (EP.354)
- ▶ 14:05 Nicolai Tangen Had been at McKinsey.
Tim Lyne – Three Decades of Private Credit at Antares (EP.346)
Kimberly Sargent – Passion and Mission at the Packard Foundation (EP.333)
- ▶ 13:11 Kimberly Sargent I had a little detour to McKinsey in San Francisco.
Matt Breitfelder – Optimizing Investment Performance through Human Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.323)
- ▶ 12:16 Matt Breitfelder What's it really like to work in McKinsey?
Eric Resnick – Ski, Golf, and Vacation Investing at KSL (EP.322)
- ▶ 6:36 Eric Resnick It all started with a senior director at McKinsey. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:10 Eric Resnick It was from Terry Williams and McKinsey to combine vocation with that vocation, no doubt.
Michael Rees – Inside GP Stakes at Dyal Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.278)
- ▶ 7:00 Michael Rees All of the, quote, really smart kids started going into the dot-com world, and that left us lowly engineers with these great interviews for, you know, this company called Goldman Sachs and McKinsey, and it was amazing. 2 times in the scene
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Private Equity Deals Podcast
- ▶ 20:10 Pete Stavros We don't want to do a slash and burn thing or something that's not going to stick, so we want the capability to be embedded in the organization, but we do want the results, and if you want to do it yourself, or if you want to go hire…
- ▶ 37:31 unnamed speaker McKinsey, E&Y, Deloitte, unions, labor officials, pensions, everyone seemed to say, if we could really make this work, this could be something.
Regan Bozman – Defensible Moats in Crypto at Lattice Capital (Manager Meetings, 34)
- ▶ 6:09 Regan Bozman Going to somewhere like Bain or McKinsey was cooler, but I knew a few people who'd sort of dropped out to start companies, and that just seemed really interesting.
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 54:45 Chris Dixon I'm at McKinsey. 2 times in the scene
Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
- ▶ 25:41 Annie Lamont And then otherwise, we don't hire McKinsey.
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 11:29 Fabrice Grinda I'm going to go to McKinsey. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:13 Fabrice Grinda A young French prodige who goes to the U S at the top of Princeton, goes to McKinsey, comes back to France to bring the internet.
- ▶ 15:02 Fabrice Grinda Of course, I could go back to McKinsey, but it felt a little bit silly.
Private Equity Masters 8 – Chuck Davis – Stone Point Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.207)
- ▶ 25:33 Chuck Davis That we do in three or four or five years what McKinsey does in three to five weeks. 2 times in the scene
Private Equity Master 2: John Connaughton – Bain Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.201)
- ▶ 28:56 John Connaughton I only spent 15 months in consulting, so I wouldn't want that as my profession, although I have very good friends at Bain and McKinsey and others places, but, but I think if you take that core intellectual curiosity,
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 54:04 Jeff Hausenbold It doesn't matter if you're in a service industry and you're Goldman Sachs or McKinsey, if you're an investment industry and you're Fidelity or Blackstone or SoftBank, or you're creating a company, what you want to do is have a set of true… 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 1:03:44 Chris Dixon This is like you're at a job, you're at McKinsey, and you feel like you're doing well, and you're getting a promotion next year, and you're doing this, but my long-term goal is to go be an entrepreneur, right?
Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)
- ▶ 25:45 Daryn Dodson So when we looked at Daniel Kahneman's research and thinking fast and slow, the behavioral economic frameworks that showed when you reduce bias, you can increase returns over a thousand company studies with McKinsey.
Ben Reiter – Over the Edge with the Houston Astros (Capital Allocators, EP.166)
- ▶ 14:13 Ben Reiter He came to baseball from McKinsey.
Joel Greenblatt – Common Sense for Value at Gotham Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.165)
- ▶ 59:16 Joel Greenblatt Imbilis together with McKinsey has designed game-based tests that supposedly determine how good your decision-making skills are and how good your critical thinking skills are.
- ▶ 1:03:35 Joel Greenblatt Some of the tests that McKinsey's working on, you can just source them from anywhere and they'd have to iterate for a while, but eventually I think they'll be just as good.
Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money (Capital Allocators, EP.155)
- ▶ 35:25 unnamed speaker Raj Gupta is similar in terms of he was the leader of McKinsey and he was so successful.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 4: Joel Wittenberg – A Prescription for the Future (Capital Allocators, EP.154)
- ▶ 27:50 Joel Wittenberg Varde and Beacon Investments real estate firm in Boston, and what we've done is we're working with a consultant, and we're using data from the McKinsey Women of the Workforce study.
- ▶ 33:26 Joel Wittenberg There's a McKinsey study in 2015, and it showed that companies in the top quartile for racial diversity of leadership were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their national industry medians.
Matthew Granade – Inside Data Science at Point72 (First Meeting, EP.22)
- ▶ 5:52 Matthew Granade And then work early on in my career with McKinsey and then went to Harvard business school. 2 times in the scene
Taimur Hyat – After the Great Lockdown (Capital Allocators, EP.149)
- ▶ 6:32 Taimur Hyat To McKinsey Consulting Asset Management and where I am now at PJ.
- ▶ 10:21 Ted Seides And then how did you decide to go from McKinsey into asset management?
- ▶ 10:56 Ted Seides And what was that first step outside of McKinsey? 2 times in the scene
Sustainable Investing 8: Lauren Taylor Wolfe – Activist Perspective (Capital Allocators, EP.146)
- ▶ 6:52 Lauren Taylor Wolfe Really, McKenzie folks meet Accenture folks, and their clients were Amazon and Zebra and others, and my clients turned out to be the big investment banks, so I went to go work with, my clients were Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and the…
- ▶ 45:35 Lauren Taylor Wolfe So I think in large firms, there's been a lot written about when they choose to have a family, you know, you see the promotion drop off, and there's this great, McKinsey did this great study, where you see, as you go through ranks within a…
Daylian Cain – Master Class in Negotiations (Capital Allocators, EP.138)
- ▶ 21:36 Daylian Cain But ironically, I tell my graduates, often if they're negotiating with McKinsey, they shouldn't go first. 2 times in the scene
Daniel Adamson – Innovation from Asset Giants at Capital Constellation (EP.136)
- ▶ 6:44 Daniel Adamson And while even at 26, 28, when I was at McKinsey, 29, when I was at Lehman getting my real education, I still might not have said yet that investing was for me.
- ▶ 8:43 Daniel Adamson I joined McKinsey and company for the reasons anyone should join, you know, you get to see the whole world. 2 times in the scene
Christie Hamilton – Tweeting on Allocation at Children's Health (Capital Allocators, EP.124)
- ▶ 48:46 Christy Hamilton McKinsey, Bain, all of those groups, because so many of them do actual due diligence for private equity, and it's fascinating to hear their insights.
Kip McDaniel – How to Get an Allocator's Attention (Capital Allocators, EP.115)
- ▶ 31:31 Kip McDaniel We were writing a story about MIO, the internal fund tied to McKinsey. 9 times in the scene
Sarah Williamson – Focusing Capital on the Long-Term (Capital Allocators, EP.67)
- ▶ 4:53 Ted Seides Department of State and McKinsey before joining Wellington.
- ▶ 7:27 Sarah Williamson and then I went to business school at Harvard and went to McKinsey, first in London and then in Dallas and then in Boston for five years, and then I went to Wellington. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:06 Sarah Williamson But I met Mark Wiseman, who at the time ran the Canada Pension Plan, and Larry Fink, who runs BlackRock, and Dominic Barton, who runs or ran until just recently McKinsey. 2 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 58:46 Josh Wolfe So then you have this recongealing, and I think people go back to the McKinsey's and the Goldman's and the, and the Accenture's and the JP Morgan's that they might've left because they're going back to the safety of the mothership.
Ben Reiter – Moneyball 2.0 (Capital Allocators, EP.64)
- ▶ 14:21 Ben Reiter So he brought in Jeff Luno from McKinsey and from the tech world, which is where Jeff worked, although he was always a big baseball fan, was connected with him by his son-in-law, someone that Jeff knew from McKinsey, brought him in to run… 2 times in the scene
John Pfeffer - Crypto for Institutions (Capital Allocators, EP.54)
- ▶ 4:59 Ted Seides Before that, he advised on turnarounds while with McKinsey in Europe and Latin America.
Chris Acito – Credit Where Credit is Due (Capital Allocators, EP.33)
- ▶ 6:02 Chris Acito And that was because you had a hard time applying a Booz Allen McKinsey style business model when in fact your clients were companies measured in the tens at most hundreds of people.
David Barrett – Searching for Leaders (Capital Allocators, EP.26)
- ▶ 9:09 David Barrett But that, so does McKinsey, and so does all the law firms, and so I think
Chatri Sityodtong – Warrior Spirit (Capital Allocators, EP.22)
- ▶ 14:32 Chatri Sityodtong Why don't you just pick, I think I had like four or five job offers, you know, from the typical McKinsey's and Goldman's or whatever it is and hedge funds.
Tom Lenehan – Perpetual Thinking at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.04)
- ▶ 14:40 Tom Lenehan I had worked for the summer, uh, back in Cleveland for McKinsey, and that answered two incredible questions that I had.
- ▶ 18:25 Tom Lenehan I'm going to McKinsey.