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Rebuilding the NYU Endowment – Michelle Knudsen (EP.513)
- ▶ 9:00 Michelle Knudsen My parents moved to Washington, D.C. when I was in high school.
Hotel Investing at EOS – Jonathan Wang (EP.506)
- ▶ 27:33 Jonathan Wang Is in seven large urban markets, so Boston, New York, DC, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, LA, and resorts, which the vast majority of the resorts that we invest in are up and down the East and West Coast.
Making Mistakes – Josh Steiner (EP.502)
- ▶ 1:21 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Josh Steiner, a polymath of the New York and D.C. power corridors across government, media, and finance, and co-author of From Mistakes to Meaning, owning your past so it doesn't own you.
- ▶ 8:11 Josh Steiner In... 1993, I went down to Washington to work on the Clinton transition.
- ▶ 27:36 Josh Steiner Bob, when I worked for him in Washington, was awesome at this.
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 21:10 Brett McGurk Last 20 years, across four administrations, as Josh said, which is pretty unique, I first came to Washington in 2001. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:23 Brett McGurk They point to our constant turnover in Washington.
- ▶ 28:43 Brett McGurk Strategy, Ted, is the most overused word in Washington.
Jeff Aronson – Building Centerbridge Across the Capital Structure (EP.468)
- ▶ 7:31 Jeff Aronson I was always interested in government and public policy, and I liked the fact Baltimore was close to Washington, so I thought that was cool.
Morgan Housel – The Art of Spending Money (EP.466)
- ▶ 27:36 Morgan Housel One of the things that got me going on this topic of the psychology of spending was I used to live in Washington, D.C., and I used to go down to the Library of Congress where they have
Friends Reunion 3 – Five Allocators Riff on Investing (EP.454)
- ▶ 59:20 Brett Barth The Washington Research Group at TD Cowan has some great DC stuff that I read all the time.
Michael Sidgmore – Alternatives Go Mainstream (Private Wealth 1, EP.443)
- ▶ 9:34 Michael Sidgmore Grew up outside of DC.
Ben Forman – Unlocking Blockchain's Potential (EP.441)
- ▶ 47:17 Ben Forman I think in DC, there's been a wake up call that it's a huge benefit for stable coins to win web three rails because every time a stable coin is issued on the back end, someone's buying a treasury and that's in turn incrementally lowering…
Mark Sullivan and Roberto Isch – Hedge Fund Investing at Wellington (EP.427)
- ▶ 48:12 Roberto Ish She grew up in New Orleans, and I grew up in D.C. 2 times in the scene
Donald Miller - Building a Story Brand (EP.426)
- ▶ 34:57 Donald Miller I moved to DC to get to know her better and to start dating.
Chris and Rob Michalik - Twin Tackle of Private Equity at Kinderhook (EP.416)
- ▶ 16:12 Chris and Rob Michalik So I decided to leave and ended up at a firm called Thera Capital Partners in Washington, D.C.
- ▶ 21:14 Chris and Rob Michalik And then our eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren, he hated Washington, D.C.
Toby Rodes - Unlocking Value in Japan (EP.407)
- ▶ 6:44 Toby Rodes And after that, he would go almost every other year and pass through Washington, D.C., where I grew up.
- ▶ 7:59 Toby Rodes Third time in was graduating from Haverford College, going to Washington, D.C., and starting out at the Brookings Institution. 2 times in the scene
Graham Weaver – People-Driven Private Equity at Alpine (EP.391)
- ▶ 22:38 Graham Weaver Then I'm going to DC and we got this deal falling apart. 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 8:09 Chris Dixon And specifically, what I realized in speaking to a lot of people, including folks in DC that were involved in policy work and just talking to media and the general public, was
- ▶ 48:28 Chris Dixon When I went to DC the last two years,
Richard Sandler – The Prosecution of Michael Milken (EP.372)
- ▶ 14:00 Richard Sandler He was one of the founders of the major law firm that still exists today, Williams and Conley in Washington, D.C., 2 times in the scene
Brian Christiansen – High-Conviction Growth Investing at Sands Capital (EP.361)
- ▶ 4:14 Brian Christensen Sands is located in Arlington, Virginia, right outside of Washington, D.C., and I was pretty lucky because Sands was hiring, and so I've spent my entire career at the firm since then.
Ravi Viswanathan – Venture Secondaries and Growth Capital at NewView (EP.327)
- ▶ 6:32 Ravi Viswanathan I joined in the DC office.
Matt Breitfelder – Optimizing Investment Performance through Human Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.323)
- ▶ 8:56 Matt Breitfelder I wrote a thesis about that when I was at LSE, and then a number of things fell into place where I ended up working in DC at the US Department of Commerce.
- ▶ 19:44 Matt Breitfelder And I was working at 20th and K in Washington, D.C. at the time. 2 times in the scene
Eric Resnick – Ski, Golf, and Vacation Investing at KSL (EP.322)
- ▶ 1:01:24 Eric Resnick He escaped, and he came to Washington DC or the suburbs and started up a sports camp.
Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
- ▶ 13:02 Chris Sacca Being in DC, you get exposed to politics, and politics is so much about have you earned your keep?
- ▶ 1:14:22 Chris Sacca Obviously, I think my mom and dad setting us up to have these diverse career experiences as kids, so we would work construction, and then I would go intern with a lobbyist in DC at age 12, and write position papers for them.
Tony Yoseloff – Forty Years of Davidson Kempner (Capital Allocators, EP.313)
- ▶ 6:38 Tony Yoseloff The way it works in law school is your second summer internship really dictates most of the time where you wind up going to work full time, and so I interviewed heavily with both Washington firms and
Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
- ▶ 34:55 Tom Steyer So why don't we stop talking about it and start talking about something important, like what's going on in the United States of America, not what the people in Washington DC want to talk about today, but actually get down to the stuff…
Anthony Scaramucci – Another Winter and Another Rebirth (Capital Allocators, EP.292)
- ▶ 27:40 Anthony Scaramucci At that time, he was a darling of Washington.
Jon Ballis – In the Room Where Private Equity Happens at Kirkland & Ellis (Capital Allocators, EP.277)
- ▶ 39:05 Jon Ballis In the press, in Washington, a lot of people think private equity is really just financial engineering.
- ▶ 48:02 Jon Ballis We don't lobby Washington to do X or to do Y.
Carla Harris – Pearls of Career Wisdom (Capital Allocators, EP.267)
- ▶ 52:08 Carla Harris And when we were going through the financial services crisis, he pulled together the managing directors a lot to say, hey, I was down in Washington yesterday.
Billy Libby – Disruptive Venture Funding at Upper90 (Capital Allocators, EP.251)
- ▶ 5:12 Billy Libby I grew up in a suburb of Washington DC in Bethesda.
Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- ▶ 26:25 Sebastian Mallaby How do you figure out whether policy changes in Washington DC may affect your business?
Chris Heller - Weird Alternatives at Cordillera Investment Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.28)
- ▶ 5:55 Chris Heller Went to work in investment banking for a number of years, both in New York and Menlo park, had a brief stint on Capitol Hill in DC.
James Aitken – Market Implications of the Situation in Ukraine (Capital Allocators, EP.239)
- ▶ 11:30 James Aitken But it's interesting, Ted, because there's a thirty-day grace period when Washington, or should I say Treasury, announced the sanctions.
- ▶ 31:10 James Aitken Unsurprisingly, Ted, as soon as Washington, and let us not forget, Europe, impounded Russia's foreign reserves.
Paula Volent – Star Endowment Manager's Next Act at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.219)
- ▶ 10:06 Paula Volent I got an early admission to Yale, but at the same time, I got a really prestigious fellowship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and it was to combine paper conservation and paintings conservation on contemporary art, and also… 2 times in the scene
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 17:44 Barry Sternlicht So he went to Washington, and in the budget reconciliation bill of that year, they threw in a little provider to get rid of the paired shares, like to obliterate their structure. 4 times in the scene
Jan Garfinkle – Arboretum Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.09)
- ▶ 1:03:08 Jan Garfinkel Succession planning, how to hire, how to just everything about how do you professionalize venture, and I think through that vocal experience that I had and a lot of positive feedback from the NVCA team, which is an incredible team, by the…
Private Equity Masters 4: David Rubenstein – Carlyle Group (Capital Allocators, EP.203)
- ▶ 7:51 David Rubenstein Rowe Price, and I stayed in touch with him, and then gradually, as I began to realize I wasn't a great lawyer and didn't really like it, I stayed in touch with him, and he said, well, why don't you set up a buyout firm or private equity…
- ▶ 13:36 David Rubenstein In my case, because I was from Washington, D.C., people always wanted to know what was going on in the White House or in Washington. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:21 David Rubenstein It was Ted Widmer wrote a book about Lincoln's journey from Springfield to Washington, where he was almost assassinated when he was getting ready to be sworn in as president.
Innovation in Private Markets 2: Mark Johnson – New Leaders in Private Equity at Astra (Capital Allocators, EP.193)
- ▶ 7:01 Mark Johnson And there's this firm called Carlisle down in DC that I've heard of, and I'd love to work there one day. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:54 Mark Johnson To DC and to Carlisle was a great experience, because there, it wasn't just an experience that was relegated to working with people from the finance community.
- ▶ 20:58 Mark Johnson I was working at Blackstone, and Bill wanted to sit down and grab coffee and just talk to me about what they were doing in the communications practice at Carlisle in D.C., where I had grown up, and my wife was from also, and it was, it was…
Acting Chairman Rostin Behnam – CFTC Regulatory Perspectives on Crypto and Climate (Capital Allocators, EP.178)
- ▶ 6:20 Rostin Behnam It's one of the two market regulators in Washington. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:47 Rostin Behnam So our main office is obviously in Washington, but we have offices in New York and Chicago and Kansas City. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:47 Rostin Behnam And certainly that's helpful, but when I think about folks in Washington, I think the number one attribute, the number one thing that I think folks across the country should look to for their elected officials or the regulators that the…
- ▶ 21:49 unnamed speaker The unvarnished response was, you got to go work on the hill, and it was very focused on the law and practicing law, which I think I didn't tell him clearly that I didn't want to necessarily be a lawyer, but he thought if you want to be a…
- ▶ 40:43 Rostin Behnam Many are located in Washington, and they're great, but they're typically the reps of the companies who are in D.C. and want to message the sort of issues from the headquarters. 2 times in the scene
Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)
- ▶ 6:13 Daryn Dodson So when I was in kindergarten in Washington, D.C., mostly white kindergarten, which I'll leave nameless, I was asked to leave kindergarten, and it's spelled for
- ▶ 9:11 Daryn Dodson So when I was about 14 years old, I created a bagel sale at my high school in Washington, D.C., and it expanded to multiple other high schools.
Marko Papic – Geopolitical Alpha at Clocktower Group (Capital Allocators, EP.161)
- ▶ 29:18 Marko Papic Like, you'd get a call from Washington, D.C., you would have to listen.
Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money (Capital Allocators, EP.155)
- ▶ 1:01:24 Morgan Housel To give you one that's maybe obscure and not obvious, I love, and I don't do this very often, I don't want to say this is like a common hobby, but I love reading old newspapers, and particularly when I lived in Washington, D.C., going to…
Steve Nelson – Assisting Private Equity Allocators Through Turbulent Times at ILPA (Capital Allocators, EP.129)
- ▶ 4:21 Steve Nelson And so I joined their DC office at the time, spent a couple of years there, was thinking about going back to get my MBA, had always been the plan, and was afforded this amazing opportunity to help do a little bit of the business planning…
Neal Triplett and Kim Lew – Issues of Management at Duke and Carnegie (Capital Allocators, EP.116)
Steve Rattner – Overseeing Michael Bloomberg's Family Office (Capital Allocators, EP.113)
- ▶ 11:42 Steve Rattner I was happily going about my business working in a private equity firm, and we were investing, we raised a second fund, we were thinking about a third fund, because I think my journalistic experience in Washington, where I spent five of my… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:18 Steve Rattner The gridlock in Washington, the lack of any real fiscal space on the state and local side, government isn't building roads and infrastructure, government isn't training workers,
Jay Girotto – Farmland Opportunity (First Meeting, EP.10)
- ▶ 26:17 Ted Seides Have you seen any impact in the crops on things like the trade war or different regulations coming out of Washington? 2 times in the scene
Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
- ▶ 43:37 Ted Seides Somewhere behind the, the curtain in DC, there are people who are the ones who are deciding whether or not a merger goes through or what the impact of that is. 2 times in the scene
Joe Lonsdale – Entrepreneurship and 8VC (First Meeting, EP.09)
- ▶ 8:46 Joe Lonsdale Can we be doing something to take what we've learned and apply it to DC? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:11 Joe Lonsdale In DC, you probably want to be like with the senators or the people around the president or the heads of agencies.
Gary Klein with Paul Sonkin and Paul Johnson – Conducting Pre-Mortem Analysis (Capital Allocators, EP.109)
- ▶ 49:40 Paul Johnson And he lives in Washington DC, so a little bit harder.
Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
- ▶ 48:13 Scott Kupor I think it is, and we've been active as a firm, and I've been active personally in D.C. talking about these kinds of things.
Eric Ries – Lean Start-Ups and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (Capital Allocators, EP.107)
Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital (First Meeting, EP.06)
- ▶ 6:11 Mike Novogratz We moved around a decent bit when I was young, young, but K to 12, we lived in the D.C. area, and so I had a pretty stable friend group and experience, not the classic army brat experience.
Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
- ▶ 10:03 Jon Harris I had a great experience there, but I decided to do something different, and I ended up going down and working on the Senate Banking Committee in Washington.
- ▶ 56:01 Jon Harris And in today's world with the political implications, it's difficult to understand what, what's going to come out of Washington, but it's thinking about what are your real risks?
Ash Williams – Florida SBA's Reigning Chief (Capital Allocator, EP.104)
- ▶ 13:44 Ash Williams Senate, and at the time, my oldest daughter was a little girl, and it didn't make any sense for me to relocate to Washington,
Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
- ▶ 10:28 Paul Rabil So I did all my internships leading into that graduation year, and then I took a job in D.C., and my bosses knew who I was, and they were okay with me taking off Thursday nights after work and flying up to Boston to practice on Friday and…
Manny Friedman – EJF on Economic Opportunity Zones (EP.91)
- ▶ 9:54 Manny Friedman It's, in DC, it's 53%.
- ▶ 17:55 Manny Friedman The same way anyone who bought downtown buildings 25 years ago in San Francisco, New York, Washington,
- ▶ 28:42 Ted Seides So much strife in Washington and the government. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:09 Manny Friedman Salt Lake City, Austin, New York, Washington, Boston, you know, many of the cities in the United States.
Steve Kuhn – Life After Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.85)
- ▶ 45:00 Steve Kuhn In D.C. to help get me in front of people on this.
- ▶ 52:29 Steve Kuhn I'm learning how, how DC works a little bit, but by the way, as part of this, I'm planning to move to DC for six months, starting in January. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:16 Steve Kuhn This might be a very foolish lesson that some hedge fund guy goes to Washington and thinks he's going to change things.
Tom Bushey – Launching a Hedge Fund (Capital Allocators EP.78)
- ▶ 10:42 Tom Bushey I did a deal for a small middle market private equity firm based in Washington, DC.
Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
- ▶ 11:53 Michael Schwimer No, I had to do it until Next Rookie came on, and they had to do it, so, and then my first outing, it was in D.C., which is where I'm from,
- ▶ 22:45 Michael Schwimer And I met with 13 individuals from Washington, D.C. who were all very intelligent individuals.
Sarah Williamson – Focusing Capital on the Long-Term (Capital Allocators, EP.67)
- ▶ 7:12 Sarah Williamson I asked him for some career advice, which seemed like a logical thing to do for a twenty-one-year-old, and he said he was going to Washington to be the Deputy Secretary of State and ask if I would like to come. 2 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 17:25 Ted Seides I had to do that knowing, probably at the time, very little about how Washington worked. 2 times in the scene
Manny Friedman – Non-Linear Financial Systems (Capital Allocators, EP.61)
- ▶ 8:18 Manny Friedman And when I graduated from UNC, I came to Washington to go to law school because I was taught you never could finish your education.
- ▶ 34:00 Manny Friedman I have a program in Washington to clean up parks.
- ▶ 48:34 Manny Friedman And Anacostia in D.C. to get five, six, seven-year-olds to take their medicine every day, because asthma is something you can control.
Anthony Scaramucci – It's Called a Mooch (Capital Allocators, EP.60)
- ▶ 5:01 Ted Seides We discuss Anthony's thoughts on hedge funds, lessons from his stint in Washington, and books he's written about his experiences.
- ▶ 6:37 Anthony Scaramucci And then the excoriation and dunking process takes place, and then Washington's hoping that I go away, which of course, that's not my personality.
- ▶ 27:42 Anthony Scaramucci Washington failed the way they were pushing these subprime loans on the banks.
- ▶ 36:19 Anthony Scaramucci I didn't understand all the shenanigans and games inside of Washington, you know, and then I learned that, well, you don't even have to do that.
James Aitken – Macro Strategist Extraordinaire (Capital Allocators, EP.58)
- ▶ 37:35 James Aitken And if you imagine what it's like to be sitting around that table when the Federal Open Markets Committee meets in Washington with their mandate and their institutional imperatives, and not only that, but everything they've had to do over… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:53 James Aitken And when it comes to social media companies, the House of Commons Digital Media Committee has been holding hearings in London and Washington about the role and activities of these social media platforms.
Michael Cembalest – Eye on the Market (Capital Allocators, EP.49)
- ▶ 37:05 Michael Cembalest What are all these acronyms that are coming out of Washington?
Steven Galbraith – In the Boardroom (Capital Allocators, EP.48)
- ▶ 36:24 Steve Galbraith And so for someone as an insider from a, you know, one of the largest banks in the world to be able to articulate the urgency of that to DC Paul's was very valuable.
Wayne Wicker - Managing for Millions who Matter (Capital Allocators, EP.44)
- ▶ 15:30 Wayne Wicker So this is Washington, D.C.,
- ▶ 23:23 Wayne Wicker And, uh, ultimately I left Cadence with the suggestion of, uh, a recruiter up there that came down to, uh, Washington, D.C.,
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