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Tom Steyer

11 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 6, 2023 by Tom Steyer · said 18 times in 7 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Mar 6, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steyer: Farallon eventually became Goldman Sachs's largest clearing client
“And then over time, I was Goldman's biggest clearing customer.”
Tom Steyer Mar 6, 2023 ▶ 1:12:44 Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
Mar 6, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steyer: Hellman & Friedman backed Farallon launch with $8M seed commitment
“When I asked two different people if they would basically back me with limited partner money, one of them was a firm in San Francisco where the number three person was my old roommate. It's called Hellman and Friedman, and I think they guaranteed me eight mill…”
Tom Steyer Mar 6, 2023 ▶ 17:11 Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
Mar 6, 2023
Insight
Steyer: Real estate retrofits require proving owners will be richer by retrofitting
“For it to really happen, you have to be able to prove that you're going to be richer if you do the retrofit than if you don't do the retrofit”
Tom Steyer Mar 6, 2023 ▶ 53:33 Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
Mar 6, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Steyer: Every company, even ExxonMobil, will eventually become a climate company
“Every company, Exxon, is going to be a climate company. No question about it.”
Tom Steyer Mar 6, 2023 ▶ 40:40 Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
Mar 6, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Steyer telegraphed Farallon Capital's leadership succession eight years in advance
“One is I was very clear for years before I left at the end of 2012 that the person who was going to take over was Andrew Spokes. And so that was no surprise to anybody. I said it for eight years beforehand.”
Tom Steyer Mar 6, 2023 ▶ 27:45 Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
Mar 6, 2023 positive
Insight
Steyer: Ranches exist to generate profits for John Deere, not ranchers
“These ranches are not businesses. They live, as far as I can tell, to buy equipment from John Deere, an international harvester, and I would like to buy stock. In John Deere and International Harvester, because it's very clear to me about who's making all the …”
Tom Steyer Mar 6, 2023 ▶ 9:12 Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
Mar 6, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steyer managed half of Goldman's risk arb but earned 0.1% of profits
“My last year at Goldman Sachs, just to put it in a context of investment, I was running half of the investments for the art group. They paid me one 10th of one percent of the income from the art group.”
Tom Steyer Mar 6, 2023 ▶ 16:39 Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
Mar 6, 2023
Disclosure
Steyer discloses family regenerative cattle ranch designed to net sequester carbon
“Our family has a regenerative cattle ranch. We wanted to prove you could raise cattle in a way that net sequesters carbon.”
Tom Steyer Mar 6, 2023 ▶ 1:07:36 Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
Mar 6, 2023
Insight
Steyer: Mediocre hires cannot be trained into performing excellent work
“You can't fake excellence. If you're going to hire somebody, if they're not excellent coming in, they're not going to do an excellent job. That is an overwhelming fact of life, and that is something that I'm not sure everybody believes right now, but that is s…”
Tom Steyer Mar 6, 2023 ▶ 21:19 Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
Jun 10, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Doug Martin and Tom Steyer provided the bulk of Alpine's debut fund
“I pitched Doug Martin from the Stevens family that I had served on the board with when I was at the firm prior and done a really nice job for that company. And he observed that from being on the board from a company. So he was interested in backing me. And the…”
Graham Weaver Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 19:38 Graham Weaver – People-Driven Private Equity at Alpine (EP.391)
Oct 25, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Swensen Backed Farallon, Bracebridge, and Lone Pine Close to Day One
“David invested with hedge fund managers Tom Steyer at Farallon, Nancy Zimmerman at Bracebridge, and Steve Mandel at Lone Pine on or close to day one.”
Ted Seides Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 3:17 WTT: Yale Backs Emerging Managers… and Then What?
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