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Jeremy Grantham – Bubbles, Value Investing, and the Long Game at GMO (EP.493)
- ▶ 1:00:56 Jeremy Grantham One or two other people, like Princeton, did approximately as well, with similar advantages, but not quite as much.
- ▶ 1:13:16 Jeremy Grantham On a ten-year basis, we were beating Harvard and Yale and Princeton with our portfolio.
Ryan Lovell – Chainlink: The Infrastructure Pipes for Multi-Chain Finance (EP.491)
- ▶ 4:57 Ryan Lovell So Central Pennsylvania didn't really have Wall Street aspirations, but back in the day, if you didn't go to quote unquote the target schools, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, it was hard to break into that type of job right at a college.
Ashby Monk – Total Portfolio Approach and the Future of Asset Owners (EP.480)
- ▶ 50:09 Ashby Monk Most graduates of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, they barely know what a pension fund is, let alone a sovereign fund, let alone the difference between a reserve investment corporation and a stabilization fund. 2 times in the scene
Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
- ▶ 1:26:08 Matthew Dicks I once saw a guy in Boston get on stage and tell a story about being on the Princeton campus. 4 times in the scene
Mason Morfit and Rob Hale – Quiet Activism at ValueAct (EP.462)
- ▶ 7:32 Mason Morfit Unbeknownst to me, Princeton had hired Danny Kahneman out of UC Berkeley and a few hundred miles North
Ed Grefenstette – Bold Allocations at The Dietrich Foundation (EP.437)
- ▶ 17:48 Ed Grefenstette He said he was 16, researching something under the letter P, and he came across Princeton University in the encyclopedia. 5 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.
Graham Weaver – People-Driven Private Equity at Alpine (EP.391)
- ▶ 9:06 Graham Weaver I was accepted to Princeton and I was like, okay, we're going to give this genie thing a try. 3 times in the scene
Ted Seides – Unlocking Investment Wisdom (EP.352)
- ▶ 9:52 Ted Seides So back then, all the hedge funds that existed, Andy Golden, who later left and about to retire from Princeton, he managed what we call the absolute return portfolio, and all the hedge funds were on one sheet of paper and a little bit on…
Ted Martell – Empty Rooms: Commercial Real Estate Non-Performing Loans in NYC at Maverick Real Estate (EP.349)
- ▶ 5:04 Ted Martell And so, after high school, I went to Princeton University where I studied architecture. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:46 Ted Martell Pretty non-traditional path for a Princeton grad, and very mechanical in nature.
- ▶ 46:14 Ted Martell I've had this really incredible trajectory in my life where I got to go to Princeton, and I got to go to Columbia, and I've started my own business, and I've got a beautiful family with three little kids.
WTT: The Real Yale Model
- ▶ 14:12 Ted Seides Andy, who will retire next year after 30 years at Princeton, shared his approach on an early Capital Allocators podcast.
Jenn Birmingham – Organizational Alpha at PRINCO (EP. 336)
- ▶ 10:28 Jen Birmingham Like a university like Princeton, you could not draft a better job spec.
- ▶ 23:06 Jen Birmingham Was how during the financial crisis, the board, the university, Andy, and Prenko all worked together to figure out holistically what is best for the university. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:49 Scott McDonald Where does the university fit into this whole equation?
- ▶ 50:33 Jen Birmingham Yeah, so we basically recruit primarily from Princeton University, but also have programs at Howard and MLT.
- ▶ 55:19 Jen Birmingham Where I think the most change happened or will be happening, because it can't happen right away, is with the university. 6 times in the scene
Ted Seides – The Art of the Interview (EP.330)
- ▶ 1:01:36 Ted Seides Andy Golden, who's just retiring from Princeton, says, follow your like.
Tony Yoseloff – Forty Years of Davidson Kempner (Capital Allocators, EP.313)
- ▶ 4:27 Ted Seides He also sits on the investment committees of Princeton University, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, and the New York Public Library.
- ▶ 6:22 Tony Yoseloff I left Princeton a year early to start at Columbia, and I did a joint law business degree at Columbia, and I was a public policy major at Princeton, and I was very torn between doing a career in regulatory law and doing a career in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:57 Ted Seides You spend a bunch of time on a couple prestigious investment committees, Princeton, New York Public Library, Columbia Presbyterian.
- ▶ 1:05:46 Tony Yoseloff And then I got to Princeton University as an eighteen-year-old, and I was probably an average student and a very mediocre athlete. 3 times in the scene
Ashby Monk – Investor Identity, Navigation, and Resilience (Capital Allocators, EP.312)
- ▶ 28:05 Ashby Monk By the way, the problem I have with the fact that not everybody knows this is all these technologists at places like Stanford or Princeton or Harvard, they don't even know that these pension funds are spending this much on this technology.
Coach Paul Assaiante – Leading People to Greatness (Capital Allocators, EP.307)
- ▶ 42:14 Paul Assaiante It was otherworldly, and then the last match of the year, we went down to play Princeton in a duel match, and they beat us. 4 times in the scene
Venture Capital Panel – Beezer Clarkson, Chris Douvos, and Joelle Kayden (Capital Allocators, EP.299)
- ▶ 15:57 Chris Douvos It's hilarious because I remember being at Princeton, we had, you know, our Monday meeting, and, you know, we'd have Peter Stein come in and talk about hedge funds and domestic equity, and John Erickson would come in and talk about…
José E. Feliciano – Flexible Private Market Investing at Clearlake (Capital Allocators, EP. 297)
- ▶ 6:37 Jose Feliciano The inflection point was in my junior year at Princeton, I basically went a roommate who was a year ahead of me.
Frank Brosens – Culture and Partnership at Taconic Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.282)
- ▶ 7:29 Frank Brosens So I was a mechanical and aerospace engineer at Princeton and was looking to get into business in some fashion. 2 times in the scene
Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- ▶ 9:05 Ted Seides So taking Andy Golden at Princeton University's endowment, or Paul Valente, who had incredible returns at Bowdoin for a long time, is now at Rockefeller University.
Allan Jean-Baptiste and Marco DeMeireles – Under-covered Venture Markets and Teams at Ansa Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.36)
- ▶ 3:06 Ted Seides Andy is president of PRINCO, where he's overseen the management of Princeton University's endowment since 1995.
Carla Harris – Pearls of Career Wisdom (Capital Allocators, EP.267)
- ▶ 8:24 Carla Harris I think I'm going to apply to Cornell or Princeton. 2 times in the scene
Ashvin Chhabra – The Aspirational Investor (Capital Allocators, EP.260)
- ▶ 26:22 Ashvin Chhabra The Institute, for those who don't know, the Institute is a few hundred acres next to Princeton University, completely independent, 30 faculty members for life, and then a couple of hundred visitors each year.
- ▶ 31:57 Ashvin Chhabra The Institute, because there's no other source of funding, while on the other hand, for Yale or Princeton, they could just double their tuition.
- ▶ 48:41 Ashvin Chhabra The answer is, if you're Princeton, yes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:53 Ashvin Chhabra Places like Princeton and Yale, when they're retrenched, it's really the lower end, the lowest rung of employees that end up getting retrenched.
Steve Papa – Entrepreneur's Perspective on Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 13 (Capital Allocators, EP.244)
- ▶ 10:40 Steve Papa He wanted to get an alumni memorabilia beer can that had the Princeton logo on it, believe it or not.
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 26:42 Josh Wolfe He's got a molecular bio background, Princeton, Goldman Sachs, went to work for Chris Hone, ran the foundation there, then went to, again, was recruited by Bill, there for a decade.
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 10:49 Fabrice Grinda I went to Princeton and I studied economics rather than computer science because it explained to me the way the world worked. 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.
Chris Douvos – The LP's Perspective from Ahoy Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 2 (Capital Allocators, EP.230)
- ▶ 34:24 Chris Douvos I remember one of the very first meetings I had at Princeton in June of 2001 was with an Israeli venture firm.
- ▶ 46:28 Chris Douvos I took his class as an undergrad, talked to him a lot when I was particularly at Princeton, would email every now and again, and even though he and I weren't close by any stretch, he once said something to me that changed my life.
Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)
- ▶ 5:26 Chris Douvos I was kind of a young buck at Princeton's endowment then, and I was like, hey, it feels like something's going on in entrepreneurial finance, and we were post dot com bust. 2 times in the scene
Satya Patel – Homebrew (Manager Meetings, EP.18)
- ▶ 50:51 Satya Patel But they'll have graduated, so to speak, and develop enough of a track record in history and scale where they can attract capital from the James Irvine Institution and Harvard and Yale and Princeton and folks like that who are long-term…
Katie Hall – Hall Capital Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.213)
- ▶ 44:52 Ted Seides So I know through your career, you've sat on the investment committees of a number of organizations, Princeton, your alma mater, Mellon, a bunch in California. 4 times in the scene
Innovation in Private Markets 2: Mark Johnson – New Leaders in Private Equity at Astra (Capital Allocators, EP.193)
- ▶ 4:54 Mark Johnson I chose Princeton partially because I read Liars Poker my senior year in high school and Michael Lewis went to Princeton and it seemed to get him to Wall Street. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:24 Mark Johnson It, in many cases, grit, determination, and, you know, while at Princeton, I did a few things. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:58 Ted Seides You had this path laid out, as you said, and a lot of times people with that kind of pedigree, you know, you go to Princeton, you go to Wall Street, you have these visions of being on a track,
- ▶ 13:26 Mark Johnson But at the same time, from the day I stepped into Merrill out of Princeton till now, I was always committed to the communications and technology sector.
Innovation in Private Markets 1: Steve Moseley – The Space in Between GPs and LPs at Alaska Permanent Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.192)
- ▶ 1:16:43 Steve Moseley But he's 85 years old, and he just wrote a book on the evolutionary basis of morality and published it, and he's taking Japanese at Princeton.
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 41:09 Jeff Hausenbold You went to Brown or you went to Harvard or you went to Princeton or you went to McGill.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 1: Jacob Walthour – A Blueprint for Diversity (Capital Allocators, EP.151)
- ▶ 26:44 Jake Walthour That they didn't think their African-American that they selected out of Harvard or Yale or Princeton could actually have success, or they would have a lower probability of success.
- ▶ 33:18 Jake Walthour And then he turns to my office mate and says, hey, what'd you think of the Princeton-Yale lacrosse game?
Daylian Cain – Master Class in Negotiations (Capital Allocators, EP.138)
- ▶ 1:04:56 Daylian Cain And it said Princeton on the front, and on the back, this is gonna sound awful, thanks, no thanks, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford.
Andrew Golden – Navigating Princeton's Endowment Through (Another) Crisis (Capital Allocators, EP.133)
- ▶ 16:31 Ted Seides Well, if you start at that highest level of what's happening at the university, there is this uncertainty about what does, let's just simplify it and say, the tuition dollars of an incoming freshman class look like in September. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:49 Andy Golden It's good for that individual manager and bad for the ecosystem that is Princeton, uh, Sprinko.
- ▶ 26:12 Andy Golden These are current juniors, you know, rising seniors at Princeton, which is where we get a lot of our talent. 2 times in the scene
Doug Phillips – Middle of the Fairway at the University of Rochester (Capital Allocators, EP.123)
- ▶ 4:19 Ted Seides Doug's two decade tenure at Rochester constitutes only the back half of his work in the endowment world, as he previously managed Williams College's endowment for 14 years and started his career in the early eighties at Princeton.
- ▶ 5:33 Doug Phillips The short story on the long path is I worked as an analyst for a few years and literally crossed Nassau Street in Princeton, where I was born, and went from an analyst at a consulting group to Princeton to helping administer the endowment… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:12 Doug Phillips But Rochester was a particularly interesting university for me, because I knew about it when I worked at Princeton, the treasurer at the time, Carl Schaeffer, 3 times in the scene
Ted Seides – A Rational Reminder (Capital Allocators, EP.121)
- ▶ 16:04 Ted Seides Scott Maul passed from Notre Dame and Andy Golden at Princeton University and Jim Williams at the Getty Foundation who have been in their seats for
Anne Martin - Pulling the Oars as CIO of Wesleyan University (Capital Allocators, EP.114)
- ▶ 29:40 Anne Martin But on the other hand, if you find somebody you like and no other great investors are investing alongside you, I think you have to ask yourself, like, am I that much smarter than all these people at Yale who have been doing this for 20…
Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital (First Meeting, EP.06)
- ▶ 7:29 Ted Seides And so you come out of Princeton and you dabble in your father's footsteps. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:38 Mike Novogratz And Dan was like a much better student at Princeton than I was.
Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
- ▶ 42:45 Paul Rabil He was a three time first team All-American at Princeton.
Thomas Russo – All About Google (Capital Allocators, EP.90)
Mark Baumgartner – Luck, Risk and Uncertainty at the Institute for Advanced Study (Capital Allocators, EP.77)
- ▶ 6:04 Mark Baumgartner I went to Princeton for graduate school, and at Princeton, it was a very, very different experience than undergrad. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:52 Mark Baumgartner It's, uh, 800 acres in Princeton, just south of the Princeton campus.
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 26:26 Josh Wolfe So this particular technology came out of Princeton.
Kim Lew – The Carnegie Way (Capital Allocators, EP.52)
James Williams – Curating The Getty's Assets (Capital Allocators, EP.50)
- ▶ 10:49 Jim Williams And Princeton and Stanford and Ford Foundation, and they were saying, why don't we look like that?
Seth Masters – Investment Polymath (Capital Allocators, EP.38)
- ▶ 5:22 Seth Masters Right, so I did my undergraduate work, um, at Princeton, mostly on, on Chinese and Chinese intellectual history, so, uh, luckily I had an amazing set of teachers there and really became fascinated in that part of the world, but, um, but…
Deep Dive into Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.34)
- ▶ 58:49 Ted Seides It could Seth Alexander, who I worked with, and Paul Valente at Bowdoin, and Andy Golden at Princeton, and Peter Ammon at Penn, and now Rob Wallace at Stanford.
Ashby Monk – Asset Giant Futurist (Capital Allocators, EP.29)
- ▶ 7:24 Ashby Monk And then I went off to Princeton, and it was at Princeton that I, I often describe it, that I majored in rowing and minored in economics. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:38 Ashby Monk Penn at the time was our chief rival, and we had traveled from Princeton to Philly, and there was probably about five of us, and at the half we were down 2 times in the scene
Scott Malpass – The Fighting Irish's Twelfth Man (Capital Allocators, EP.25)
- ▶ 21:35 Scott Malpass Now, the bigger endowments were able to execute it faster, because they, they were, just had the resources, so the Harvard, Yale, Princeton.
- ▶ 1:23:45 Scott Malpass Whether you're at Yale or Princeton or Notre Dame or, you know, you're gonna get that job.
Kip McDaniel – CIO Whisperer (Capital Allocators, EP.20)
- ▶ 1:07:27 Kip McDaniel Gone to Princeton.
Chris Douvos – Venture Capital's Super LP (Capital Allocators, EP.14)
- ▶ 4:50 Ted Seides Before joining TIFF, Chris worked on Princeton University's endowment team.
- ▶ 11:30 Chris Douvos And so, uh, so he said, go talk to Princeton. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:15 Chris Douvos Cause I knew he was an all American in golf at Princeton.
- ▶ 15:57 Ted Seides You're at Princeton. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:32 Ted Seides In your time at Princeton, you started with this idea of, hey, this is like managing your own billions of dollars, long time horizon, the team. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:22 Chris Douvos There's some firms that are just good at that, over cycles even, but they tend, you know, they tend to be, you know, when the market stops, you know, left holding back, and that's my, like, history is having joined Princeton in a one,
- ▶ 46:32 Chris Douvos And people always ask this, like, at Princeton, did we use sizing as a proxy?
- ▶ 1:02:42 unnamed speaker Um, but like, at the same time, like, uh, one example that was really instructive to me, was we got, when I was at Princeton, Sequoia raised a fund in 2003, and they sent,
- ▶ 1:09:33 Chris Douvos He worked with me at Princeton, his brother at the time,
- ▶ 1:13:15 Chris Douvos TIFF and Princeton, wherever, and made a list of people.
Andrew Golden – Beyond the Long Term (Capital Allocators, EP.13)
- ▶ 5:04 Ted Seides Our conversation discusses Princeton's endowment two decades ago and today, including its strategic advantages as an institution, shifts in thinking about asset allocation, decision-making, team development, and partnership with managers.
- ▶ 5:45 Ted Seides You have been here at Princeton for a while now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:07 Andy Golden And it's an interesting story about, in some sense, Princeton was a victim of its own success. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:10 Andy Golden And so even though to this day, places like Princeton operate at some discount to the private sector, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:04 Ted Seides And what's approximately the spending of the university? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:49 Andy Golden Uh, you know, many of these go back, you know, the, the relationship predates my coming to Princeton.
- ▶ 53:18 Andy Golden And so we're hiring one to three or, or maybe more kids out of college, primarily Princeton, where we have some unfair recruiting advantages.
- ▶ 1:12:00 Andy Golden But I think there's been some, some Princeton basketball moments I've been 3 times in the scene
Charley Ellis – Multiple Ways to Win (Capital Allocators, EP.08)
- ▶ 50:37 Charlie Ellis Harvard and Princeton haven't been hurt by Yale.
- ▶ 1:14:21 Charlie Ellis I've had the privilege of teaching at Harvard and at Yale and at Princeton. 2 times in the scene
Brett Barth – Asset Allocation for Families (Capital Allocators, EP.03)
- ▶ 48:54 Ted Seides You know, one of the things we've seen from the endowment foundation world is some of the now persistent performance leaders, the Yales, Princeton's, you know, MIT's, Bowdoin's of the world,