Pittsburgh, every mention
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every year anyone Jeffrey Solomon 23Ted Seides 16Ed Grefenstette 11Tom Lenehan 6Brian Portnoy 4Lane MacDonald 3Rob Citrone 2Michael Rees 2Scott Bessent 1Richard Tedlow 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Pittsburgh comes up
Lane MacDonald – Teamwork, Alignment, and Investing at the Highest Levels at SCS (EP.483)
- ▶ 7:22 Lane MacDonald When he'd go somewhere, everyone wanted to meet him, and particularly in his hometown of Nova Scotia, he was a celebrity, and even in Pittsburgh to some degree.
- ▶ 9:27 Lane MacDonald Even then, my mother could pack everything we owned in two trunks that if he got traded tomorrow, we were moving from Pittsburgh to wherever. 2 times in the scene
Ed Grefenstette – Bold Allocations at The Dietrich Foundation (EP.437)
- ▶ 7:36 Ed Grefenstette So I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and I was the eighth of nine children, and my dear Irish mother said that the babies arrived with pleasant regularity, and later when my wife and I had three children, my father called it a starter… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:18 Ed Grefenstette I joined PNC Capital Markets in Pittsburgh, and we did M&A advisory, mostly on sell side deals and lower middle market. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:03 Ed Grefenstette Bill was born in Pittsburgh in 1938. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:22 Ed Grefenstette Well, when he came out of Princeton, his father was a serial entrepreneur and had most recently started a company called Dietrich Industries, not far from Pittsburgh. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:54 Ed Grefenstette But then having served on 12 different boards in Pittsburgh and seven different investment committees and chaired a few of them,
- ▶ 38:27 Ed Grefenstette If we run across opportunities that we think are extraordinary and fit, I always tell my team, the legendary football coach in Pittsburgh, Chuck Knoll, always said when it came time for drafts, he said, I always draft the best available…
- ▶ 48:56 Ed Grefenstette Just outside of Pittsburgh at Laurel Valley Golf Club called the Dietrich Private Equity Invitational.
Scott Bessent - Macro Maven (EP.415)
- ▶ 21:11 Scott Bessent but he was the head of the research department at PNC Bank in Pittsburgh, and decided, kind of like my Brown Brothers asset allocation, he just threw away the asset allocation matrix and put 40% in oil stocks or something in the seventies.
Alex Abell - Lower Middle Market Buyout Investing at RCP (EP.383)
- ▶ 51:09 Alex Abell So my wife is from Pittsburgh.
Ted Seides – Unlocking Investment Wisdom (EP.352)
- ▶ 13:05 Ted Seides A dear friend of mine, there's a psychologist in Pittsburgh, his name is Michael Mervash, and I've been involved in a experience he created called the Hero's Journey Foundation.
Michael Rees – Inside GP Stakes at Dyal Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.278)
- ▶ 6:30 Michael Rees Well, you know, if you want diapers, it starts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- ▶ 56:46 Michael Rees Oh, coming from Pittsburgh and a family that really, we prided ourselves on a stealer's work ethic in everything we did.
Rob Citrone – Emerging Markets, Hedge Funds, and Staying in the Game (Capital Allocators, EP.261)
- ▶ 40:49 Rob Citrone I'm a big fan of Pittsburgh teams.
- ▶ 44:14 Rob Citrone My grandfather was a coal miner outside of Pittsburgh, and
Tom Lenehan – Taking the Helm at the Wallace Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.246)
- ▶ 59:02 Tom Lenehan So one person that I met while at Common Fund was Bill Dietrich out of Pittsburgh. 4 times in the scene
Richard Tedlow - Charismatic Business Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.222)
- ▶ 19:51 Richard Tedlow That was also when the Fortune 500 was founded, and GM was the linchpin of the Detroit-Pittsburgh economy, around which the United States
Bill Ford – General Atlantic (Manager Meetings, EP.03)
- ▶ 9:23 Tom Lenehan And so one of the things I wanted to touch on during my discussion with Bill was how do you put everything on one common bar to say that looking at an early stage software investment in India, how does that compete with a Rust Belt…
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 1:00:48 Jeff Hausenbold So one, I grew up in Pittsburgh and came of age from Calvin and Hobbes.
James Aitken – Tour Around the World from a Small Island (Capital Allocators, EP.122)
- ▶ 46:11 James Aitken From the G-twenty meeting in Pittsburgh way back in 2009, the whole process of post-crisis regulation has been about ensuring we never have another Lehman.
David Zorub - The Path to a Hedge Fund Launch (Capital Allocators, EP.96)
- ▶ 50:34 David Zorub Actually, both my parents will be 75 this year, but my father still, he's a neurosurgeon in Pittsburgh, and he's still
Jeffrey Solomon - Grief and Goodness in Squirrel Hill (SPECIAL EPISODE)
- ▶ 3:54 Jeffrey Solomon My brother and my family, but in the broader sense, the community of Squirrel Hill is really what taught me the value structure that I have, and certainly the city of Pittsburgh, but Squirrel Hill is my home. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:12 Jeffrey Solomon I mean, if there's two things people know absolute about me, one, I'm from Pittsburgh and two, I'm Jewish. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:10 Jeffrey Solomon Um, Pittsburgh, Squirrel Hill, Tree of Life, like, that's gonna be known as one of those places that I read about and heard about my entire life. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:48 Jeffrey Solomon Well, in the midst of these tragedies, what I've learned is that if you can get beyond the immediacy of the loss and the tragedy, that there's a lot of good in the world and it's early in the process, but the outpouring of support for the… 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:10 Jeffrey Solomon Because there are many more people like us who want to do good in the world, because we learned that in places like Tree of Life, and in places like Squirrel Hill, and in cities like Pittsburgh.
- ▶ 30:19 Jeffrey Solomon Feinberg because I know their children, and they're wonderful people, and I, I know that because mostly their children have been friends and mentors of mine, and so, ah, that's tragic, like this all is, but I had a one-to-one relationship…
Michael Mervosh – Invest in Yourself (Capital Allocators, EP.68)
- ▶ 4:59 Ted Seides When not running programs or training others, Michael practices psychotherapy at the Nguyen Center in Pittsburgh, where he has professionally resided for 25 years.
- ▶ 6:17 Michael Mervosh Well, I came out of my mother, awful young in the culture of the steel mills of Pittsburgh and shaped by that world blue collar world of smoke and fire and steel.
Brian Portnoy – From Complex to Simple (Capital Allocators, EP.57)
- ▶ 57:29 Brian Portnoy I grew up in Pittsburgh. 4 times in the scene
It's Not About the Money (Capital Allocators, EP.45)
- ▶ 47:42 Ted Seides I got involved with an organization called the Hero's Journey Foundation, which a brilliant and wonderful man named Michael Mervash in Pittsburgh recreates the experience of the Joseph Campbell Hero's Journey for people.
Deep Dive into Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.34)
- ▶ 6:44 Ted Seides It's an experience set up by a psychologist in Pittsburgh named Michael Mervash, uh, based on the work of Joseph Campbell, uh, and an experience based on the hero's journey itself.
Jeffrey Solomon – Vision, Tenacity, and Empathy (Capital Allocators, EP.09)
- ▶ 5:27 Ted Seides Our conversation starts with a passionate description of Pittsburgh sports and flows to how active managers succeeded in the 19 nineties and need to evolve to succeed today.
- ▶ 6:10 Ted Seides When I walked into your office for the first time, all I saw around the walls was paraphernalia from Pittsburgh sports teams. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:58 Ted Seides So how does a Pittsburgh boy find his way to Wall Street?
- ▶ 37:07 Jeffrey Solomon I was, I didn't really come to it until I was 40 years old, and part of that is because my experience with UJ Federation in Pittsburgh, or United Jewish Federation in Pittsburgh, was one where they always asked my parents to give money…
- ▶ 51:14 Jeffrey Solomon I was listening to it on the radio because it was blacked out in Pittsburgh.
Tom Lenehan – Perpetual Thinking at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.04)
- ▶ 9:39 Tom Lenehan In a huge industrial town when U.S. manufacturing was top of the world, and it was smack in the middle between Detroit and Pittsburgh.