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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Wall Street comes up
David Abrams – Sports Ecosystem Investing at Velocity (Capital Allocators, EP. 303)
- ▶ 1:54 David Abrams When I talk to people about that, I say, oh, did you ever see Wall Street? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:11 David Abrams There's a gentleman who was running the business at DLJ named Doug Ostrover, and Doug had called me up the day my son was born, and he said, before you formally accept the job, come down to DLJ, which at that time was all the way down on…
Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
- ▶ 22:52 Tom Steyer 1986, which was our first year where the wall street scandals broke
- ▶ 1:04:46 Tom Steyer I used to go to Wall Street conferences in 2012, 1314, 15, and say, you need to take climate into account.
Dan Ivascyn – Fixed Income in the Limelight Again (Capital Allocators, EP.298)
- ▶ 10:57 Dan Ivascyn Then Scott came around, and I think Scott was a great risk taker on Wall Street.
José E. Feliciano – Flexible Private Market Investing at Clearlake (Capital Allocators, EP. 297)
- ▶ 6:43 Jose Feliciano We actually went to work in Wall Street, went for Merrill Lynch, and that opened up a whole new world for me, a world that I didn't know existed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:25 Jose Feliciano My first partner at Goldman Sachs in the group that I was in, he was actually a fellow Puerto Rican, and I was really getting to know Wall Street, and really, that was a world that I did not really understand.
Shundrawn Thomas - From Large Money Manager CEO to Social Impact Entrepreneur (Capital Allocators, EP. 293)
- ▶ 49:00 Shundrawn Thomas So it wasn't that we sat at the dinner table talking about finance and going to Wall Street where I ended up and those things.
Anthony Scaramucci – Another Winter and Another Rebirth (Capital Allocators, EP.292)
- ▶ 7:39 Anthony Scaramucci We're probably not the smartest people on Wall Street.
- ▶ 54:03 Anthony Scaramucci He said, yeah, we casted you because we thought you were some Wall Street pansy ass entitled cream puff.
Year in Review 2022 (Capital Allocators, EP. 289)
- ▶ 9:03 Ted Seides Alongside iConnections, Wall Street Prime Brokerage Cap Intro events for hedge funds, ILPA's Gatherings for private equity,
Sachin Khajuria – Two and Twenty, An Insider's Take on Private Equity (Capital Allocators, EP.285)
- ▶ 24:01 Sachin Khajuria Important to know if you're on Wall Street.
- ▶ 38:24 Sachin Khajuria This kind of white space that is either left behind by the Wall Street banks, as we've seen since the financial crisis, or just space that's generated by these firms to say, well, listen, we're doing stuff which is adjacent to the sector. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:48 Sachin Khajuria As soon as we reach that tipping point where it's no longer Wall Street serving a bit of Main Street, but it's Wall Street and Main Street are kind of the same thing. 2 times in the scene
Thomas Majewski – Empty Rooms: Masterclass on CLOs at Eagle Point Credit Management (Capital Allocators, EP. 284)
- ▶ 11:53 Tom Majewski Sadly, good ideas are very hard to keep secret on wall street and very quickly everyone and their brother figured out the trick.
- ▶ 41:45 Tom Majewski In theory, the worst job on wall street.
- ▶ 47:35 Tom Majewski Wall Street's a little bit leaky.
Charles Van Vleet – Thinking Differently with Pensions at Textron (Capital Allocators, EP. 283)
- ▶ 13:12 Charles Van Vleet I think I'm kind of a unique beast in, in SEBA that I came from a Wall Street background, and her fear about bringing in a Wall Street person, which is a legitimate fear, 2 times in the scene
Colin Smith and Farouk Miah - Empty Rooms: Investing in Africa (Capital Allocators, EP. 279)
- ▶ 44:08 Farouk Miah And, you know, to further expand Colin's point, a lot of African names used to be covered, and then got dropped because of the last four or five years, and generally Wall Street and Southside being under pressure and letting go of people.
Reade Griffith – Managing Assets and Partnerships at Tetragon (Capital Allocators, EP.276)
- ▶ 11:46 Reade Griffith So it was one of the biggest at the time, had been going for 28 years, they'd already made a fortune, they'd already been very successful for investors, and they knew everything about everything that had happened in Wall Street for the…
- ▶ 21:58 Reade Griffith Again, there are firms that have been very successful doing that on Wall Street, but I wanted a firm where we were constantly refreshing the DNA and where we always had people coming from successful models that might add new things and new…
Andy Acker - Empty Rooms: Investing in Biotech at Janus Henderson (Capital Allocators, EP.274)
- ▶ 14:54 Andy Acker And what we've found again in more than 23 years of investing in health care is that the consensus estimates from Wall Street 2 times in the scene
Matt Brown – Tidal Wave of Capital for Alternatives from Retail (Capital Allocators, EP.272)
- ▶ 37:46 Matt Brown People were hiring are coming from some of the biggest firms on Wall Street and also technology because they want a more entrepreneurial environment.
Friends Reunion 2 – Five Allocators Riff on Investing with Meredith Jenkins, Casey Whalen, Brett Barth, Jon Harris, and Ted Seides (Capital Allocators, EP.271)
- ▶ 39:59 Brett Barth Usually when there is a Wall Street invention, there are winners and there are losers.
Greg Lippmann – The Big Short and Structured Credit at LibreMax (Capital Allocators, EP.270)
- ▶ 6:30 Ted Seides How did you get onto Wall Street originally? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:05 Greg Lippmann He didn't want people to go into Wall Street, is what he thought.
Carla Harris – Pearls of Career Wisdom (Capital Allocators, EP.267)
- ▶ 4:57 Ted Seides Our conversation offers Carla's pearls of wisdom in navigating a career from her earliest days on the street. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:28 Ted Seides How'd you find your way to Wall Street? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:02 Ted Seides We're talking mid-eighties on Wall Street.
Josh Friedman – Master Class in Credit Investing at Canyon (Capital Allocators, EP.263)
- ▶ 9:18 Josh Friedman My dad certainly didn't know what Wall Street was or know anything about that whole career path.
- ▶ 24:12 Josh Friedman The street is in New York.
Rob Citrone – Emerging Markets, Hedge Funds, and Staying in the Game (Capital Allocators, EP.261)
- ▶ 6:24 Rob Citrone So I went and got a math and economics degree at Hampton City College and knew I'd get my MBA at some point after that, but went to work for Wall Street for a year at what was then First Boston.
Ashvin Chhabra – The Aspirational Investor (Capital Allocators, EP.260)
- ▶ 9:30 Ashvin Chhabra And by five, I had a very nice job on, well, not on Wall Street, but in Chicago.
Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- ▶ 24:10 Olaf Carlson-Wee I never was targeting people from Sand Hill Road with a traditional VC approach, nor was I targeting anybody from Wall Street.
Ben Forman – Opportunities in DeFi (EP.256, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.03)
- ▶ 1:08:53 Ben Forman Applications in web three, the number of resumes we're getting from people on wall street in the hedge fund world or engineers at big tech companies that want to enter and spend their career in the blockchain space, I think is a really…
Greg Dowling – Mid-Market Institutional Consulting at FEG (Capital Allocators, EP.248)
- ▶ 57:06 Greg Dowling Oliver Stone for his 1987 release of Wall Street, which I snuck into, and I saw it, I'm like, this is what I want to do, and then Peter Lynch for two reasons.
Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
- ▶ 58:35 Andrew Milgram We're great partners, uh, great friends, and, you know, we've been, you know, we're heading into our 15th year as partners, and there aren't a lot of people on Wall Street who survive as partners for 15 years.
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 9:54 David Rosenthal I started my career very traditional finance investment banking analyst on Wall Street. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:34 Ben Gilbert It's interesting how venture capital, even through the finance boom on Wall Street of the eighties and early nineties, like venture capital was kind of a sleepy asset class during that time. 2 times in the scene
Jamie Montgomery – March Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.26)
- ▶ 7:45 Eric Yuppin Is having the pattern recognition from an investment side, and that's where I think Jamie brings a lot of almost surprising amount of insight, and when you've really seen hundreds and hundreds of companies, and you've seen which have…
- ▶ 40:55 Jamie Montgomery Quarter after quarter, 27 banks can't figure it out, so I would just, like, throw out everything you hear about Wall Street and the crap you're hearing.
Paul Black and Mike Trigg – How to Build a $100B Money Manager (Capital Allocators, EP.227)
- ▶ 23:30 Paul Black Stayed at the Ritz-Carlton downtown Wall Street, and I was incredibly excited thinking, you know what, I'm coming to the mountain.
Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
- ▶ 13:31 Ian Charles They're really not into the wall street private equity mentality.
Will Cook - Sunriver Management (Manager Meetings, EP.22)
Chas Cocke - From Allocator to Manager (Capital Allocators, EP.224)
- ▶ 23:52 Chas Cocke So I would joke that part of our job was to get there before the corrupting influence of Wall Street and see if we could help protect their vision.
Brian Higgins - King Street Capital (Manager Meeting, EP. 21)
- ▶ 12:04 Tarek Siri Was it hard for you to switch to finance in terms of finding a job, giving your background in engineering, especially going into Wall Street? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:37 Brian Higgins That was the year, 87, when I was graduating with the movie Wall Street came out, and so it was the height of euphoria.
Savneet Singh – The Operator/Investor whose Software is Feeding the World (Capital Allocators, EP.220)
- ▶ 4:54 Ted Seides Our conversation covers Sav's early love of investing, time on Wall Street, transition to operator, and lessons learned along the way.
- ▶ 8:16 Ted Seides So off you go to wall street. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:11 Savneet Singh So one of the great things I did learn on Wall Street was filtering for great talent. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:53 Savneet Singh I think on wall street, this is probably a bad categorization of it, but it's like you're motivated by hitting that bonus, that target
Rashmi Kwatra – Sixteenth Street Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.17)
- ▶ 17:48 Rashmi Kwatra I did several internships during my university years, and my last one was at Deutsche Bank on Wall Street.
Hamish Corlett – TDM Growth Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.15)
- ▶ 9:21 Ethan Berman This was not, well, I majored in political science, but I got a job on Wall Street, and it pays well, and so off I went.
Matt Brown – Democratization of Alternatives at CAIS (Capital Allocators, EP.214)
- ▶ 5:39 Matt Brown He looked like a, like a character right out of a, kind of a Wall Street documentary.
- ▶ 41:58 Matt Brown I think that this market has, like all areas of Wall Street, a handful of winners.
Jonathan Brolin – Edenbrook Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.14)
- ▶ 30:06 John Brolin Nobody knows that's what you're doing because you're not talking about any of that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:15 John Brolin But I think the average net cash position across all of Wall Street right now is about two percent.
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 5:15 Barry Sternlicht I went to Brown university and coming out of Brown, I wanted to get a job on wall street, but I had no background in wall street. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:53 Barry Sternlicht I went back to Wall Street and said, we want to be a lender. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:46 Barry Sternlicht They started out as an interesting and a pretty good deal for the sponsor, frankly, alternative for IPOs, and then Wall Street went haywire, which they always do, and if you could breathe, you could raise this back.
Friends Reunion – Five Allocators Riff on Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.215)
- ▶ 1:01:21 Casey Whalen My career, who've been really, you know, instrumental, like Carol Einiger at Rockefeller, she was one of the first female partners on Wall Street, and being able to work with her and get confidence from her, and kind of the approach at…
Ryan Batchelor – Clifford Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.11)
- ▶ 17:59 Ryan Batchelor If you go to Wall Street,
- ▶ 21:50 Ryan Batchelor Had punished some of the Wall Street banks.
Matt Spielman – Executive Coaching in Asset Management (Capital Allocators, EP.210)
- ▶ 5:55 Ted Seides Well, why don't we start with what background and path took you from Wall Street pre-business school to what you're doing today?
Bruce Martin – Still Lake Capital [Manager Meetings, EP.7)
- ▶ 12:10 Bruce Martin And I had a cousin who worked on wall street. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:29 Bruce Martin There was no way to do that in an environment like that, and Angela Gordon was one of the calmest environments you'll find on Wall Street, but this is again a different conversation which boils down to why do you work by yourself as…
Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap –Inside the Sausage Factory of the Caesar's Restructuring (Capital Allocators, EP.209)
- ▶ 13:25 Sujit Indap And at the same time, in the financial world or on Wall Street, you've got this industry private equity, which is coming into its own as a major player, not just for small broken companies, which was its heritage, but rather these funds… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:03 Sujit Indap The convention business, which had been relatively stable, obviously collapses with the collapse of wall street.
Private Equity Masters 8 – Chuck Davis – Stone Point Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.207)
- ▶ 8:44 Chuck Davis Not being bored or not getting uncomfortable and being unable to focus, and when I found Wall Street and finance and business and numbers and the same competitive environment that I found on athletic fields, which I loved sports, then my…
- ▶ 13:24 Chuck Davis You had a relationship with your banker, and you came to Wall Street and asked them how to finance your next capital expenditure. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:08 Chuck Davis We tend to handpick people right out of the Wall Street training programs and really invest heavily in them, and they invest in us, and they end up staying and becoming permanent members of our team, and the turnover here has been almost…
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Diameter Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.05)
- ▶ 13:57 Jonathan Lewinsohn Look, I think I was very lucky in that I had a parent who worked on Wall Street.
Private Equity Masters 7: Orlando Bravo – Thoma Bravo (Capital Allocators, EP.206)
- ▶ 4:47 Ted Seides Among his many accolades, Forbes named Orlando Wall Street's best dealmaker in 2019.
- ▶ 9:18 Orlando Bravo And I was thinking about it, and it's like, well, I get to work on Wall Street and make money and live in New York City.
Julia Bonafede – Rosetta Analytics (Manager Meetings, EP.04)
Private Equity Masters 6 – Doug Ostrover – Blue Owl Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.205)
- ▶ 6:32 Doug Ostrover But I have to admit, with regard to Wall Street, I had no exposure. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:34 Doug Ostrover Marry both public market expertise with origination, and direct lending wasn't really a thing back then, and we thought we had originated tens of billions of product over our career, and we thought we could continue to do that and not be… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:36 Doug Ostrover Here's the, the really interesting thing about Wall Street. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:16 Ted Seides So on the private equity side, we hear a lot more about permanent capital vehicles, and so this concept of reducing the velocity that Wall Street had has to come with that side of the balance sheet.
Eli Casdin – Casdin Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.02)
- ▶ 8:50 Eli Casdin If he had taken the stock, this would be a different podcast about what's life on a boat like, and he began looking for the next thing, and that's when he stumbled on biotech, went back to Wall Street as one of the first biotech analysts…
Private Equity Masters 4: David Rubenstein – Carlyle Group (Capital Allocators, EP.203)
- ▶ 18:33 David Rubenstein We weren't in wall street. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:15 David Rubenstein It turns out when you go public, the people on Wall Street, the analysts, they care about more or less two things. 4 times in the scene
Private Equity Master 2: John Connaughton – Bain Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.201)
- ▶ 8:22 John Connaughton And so it was fairly hands on and distinctly different than the financial investors that largely came from Wall Street that were in the industry at that time.
- ▶ 11:38 John Connaughton We weren't great at raising debt.
Private Equity Masters 1: John Toomey – HarbourVest Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.200)
- ▶ 6:50 John Toomey They were going to Wall Street and working in banking, and I, I was, I was building models around atmospheric chemistry, and they were building financial models, and we'd compare notes at the end of the summer, like, oh, that actually…
Ashby Monk – Innovation in Institutional Portfolios (Capital Allocators, EP.196)
- ▶ 20:21 Ashby Monk And there's a lot of stakeholders that would say creating billionaires among hedge funds on Wall Street might go against the social mission of the labor pension plan in some state.
Innovation in Private Markets 2: Mark Johnson – New Leaders in Private Equity at Astra (Capital Allocators, EP.193)
- ▶ 4:37 Mark Johnson But, you know, I was always attracted to Wall Street since my days in high school. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:06 Ted Seides So what did you find when you got to Wall Street after those couple of years of yearning for it? 2 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,
Innovation in Private Markets 1: Steve Moseley – The Space in Between GPs and LPs at Alaska Permanent Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.192)
- ▶ 5:43 Steve Moseley So I went to work as a financial analyst on Wall Street, which was a great thing to do for lots of people for lots of reasons, but I think it was especially good for me because of this wonderful but impractical liberal arts background.
Brian Bares – Qualitative Concentration at BCM (Capital Allocators, EP.191)
- ▶ 11:08 Brian Bares You know, I didn't have a stint on Wall Street.
- ▶ 59:05 Brian Bares We're five and a half billion under management today, and that's small by wall street standards, but it's a decent size firm.
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 7:35 Jeff Hausenbold And I remember watching the movie Wall Street.
- ▶ 8:00 Jeff Hausenbold And I started out my career on Wall Street and then moved into strategy consulting.
Crypto for Institutions 4: Ari Paul – Exploiting Inefficiencies in Crypto Trading (Capital Allocators, EP.183)
Ben Reiter – Over the Edge with the Houston Astros (Capital Allocators, EP.166)
- ▶ 42:38 Ben Reiter A guy who's had this sort of history on wall street, uh,
Joel Greenblatt – Common Sense for Value at Gotham Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.165)
- ▶ 8:32 Joel Greenblatt I just didn't want to get one of those hundred hour a week Wall Street jobs out of MBA school. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:42 Joel Greenblatt There was a problem on Wall Street with Ivan Bosky and Mike Milken, and Milken was financing a lot of the merger deals at the time, and so I had in my portfolio five or six merger deals that were going on, whether I had a piece of a…
- ▶ 42:38 Joel Greenblatt So we thought we were one of the only people on wall street to figure it out.
Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
- ▶ 16:31 Shane Parrish This is kind of cool, and it was mostly Wall Street, which was also kind of awesome, because I always wanted to do more with sort of investing, and I was appealing to that audience, I think, with a lot of the stuff that I was learning, and…