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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Zoom comes up
Hotel Investing at EOS – Jonathan Wang (EP.506)
- ▶ 51:48 Jonathan Wang Likewise, one of the big things that's changed post COVID with the combination of technology is that business travel is down because a lot of people are doing zoom meetings.
Ed Grefenstette and Sean Warrington – Venture Market Update (EP.488)
- ▶ 44:57 Sean Warrington That's the one thing we learned post-COVID is that you can meet someone on Zoom, but the relationship's built in person.
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Credit Microcycles at Diameter (EP.484)
- ▶ 46:36 Jonathan Lewinsohn We have a Zoom that's open, 24 seven, and we're popping in and out of it.
- ▶ 1:14:49 Jonathan Lewinsohn We spend a lot of time on Zooms at Diameter, both internally and externally. 3 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 41:46 Josh Wolfe Some people, when they're on Zoom, they have fireflies or granola or otter that are recording things.
Michael Ovitz – Reinventing Talent and Building Momentum at Treville (EP.455)
- ▶ 57:10 Michael Ovitz I like to give people back what I call bonus time, and I say that at the end of every Zoom.
Asset Management Consolidation - Simon Krinsky, Hall Capital and Tim McCusker, NEPC (EP.421)
- ▶ 30:38 Simon Krinsky So for the next six months to a year, that is going to be a major priority, just getting people in the same room, ideally in person, otherwise a bunch of Zooms.
Brad Briner - Family Office to Public Service (EP.413)
- ▶ 25:00 Brad Briner And if it's not in person today, we'll do it by zoom tomorrow.
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 6:05 Ted Seides We'll invite you to a Q and a zoom.
- ▶ 27:40 Mike Maples, Jr. So, for example, before COVID, probably not as many people thought it was reasonable to spend a couple or three days a week working from home using Zoom, but now that's the permanent change.
- ▶ 34:54 Mike Maples, Jr. And when you buy an individual stock, let's say we decide to buy a Zoom stock. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:00 Mike Maples, Jr. When I look at these hundred bagger startups, let's take Zoom, for example. 6 times in the scene
Jeff Assaf - Protecting Clients and Assets at ICG (EP.398)
- ▶ 33:58 Jeff Assaf So we did the Zoom meeting last week, and they took us through everything, and we finished, and we said, he's making a lot of sense.
David Morehead – Top Down Allocation at Baylor (EP.381)
- ▶ 50:15 David Morehead So we go deck, zoom, in our office.
Shiloh Bates – CLO Investing at Flat Rock Global (EP.379)
- ▶ 48:40 Shiloh Bates Somebody shows up late to a Zoom call,
Training Grounds – Carnegie Corporation of New York (EP.377)
Michael Leffell – Opening Doors to Niche Private Opportunities at 10 East (EP.373)
- ▶ 51:09 Michael Leffell All these interviews were done on Zoom.
Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350)
- ▶ 35:02 Rick Heitzman But we would have events in our guilds, which are communities, sometimes they're via Zoom, sometimes they're via text,
- ▶ 39:24 Rick Heitzman You still put it on Zoom, you still put it on YouTube.
Allison Thacker – Different Perspectives and Different Assets at Rice University (EP.348)
- ▶ 53:01 Allison Thacker Everyone has to know this information during COVID over Zoom, but all of the interesting random thing I heard today that isn't material, but is part of your mosaic of understanding never got shared.
Raelan Lambert, John Jackson, and Erik Sebusch – Inside Mercer Consulting (EP.345)
- ▶ 40:20 Eric Seabush Zoom is great.
Isaac Corre – Event-Driven Investing at Governors Lane (EP.344)
- ▶ 19:53 Isaac Corre Hire lawyers, but a lot of it is the old leather shoe going to the trial, watching trials on zoom.
Finny Kuruvilla – The Fourth Source of Alpha at Eventide (EP.343)
- ▶ 52:44 Finny Kuruvilla It's amazing what you can learn over a meal that you wouldn't learn over Zoom, and just how to put it all together.
Alan Forman – Yale Endowment Real Estate (EP.340)
- ▶ 11:30 Alan Forman Obviously today it'd be more zoom related.
Adam Karr – Extreme Alignment at Orbis (EP.338)
Jenn Birmingham – Organizational Alpha at PRINCO (EP. 336)
- ▶ 5:41 Ted Seides And while you're at it, go ahead and tell your office mate, or Zoom buddy as the case may be, that Private Equity Deals is back for another season.
Stan Miranda – Modern Endowment Model at Partners Capital (EP.334)
- ▶ 37:35 Stan Miranda We owned those, and we owned the beneficiaries like Zoom.
Kipp deVeer – The World of Private Credit at Ares (EP.329)
- ▶ 1:05:28 Kipp deVeer So this year for us is a little bit of, uh, people actually really need to integrate and know each other better than they maybe do when they were sitting in front of their Zoom screens during the pandemic, right?
Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
- ▶ 46:00 Chris Sacca Our kids have, for the last three years, gone to online school, like a one-on-one Zoom school.
Amy Falls – From Bonds to Boards to Leading Northwestern (Capital Allocators, EP.316)
Anthony Scaramucci – Another Winter and Another Rebirth (Capital Allocators, EP.292)
- ▶ 20:07 Anthony Scaramucci Taking place on the internet, and oh, by the way, you're going to go through a pandemic, and you're going to use the internet, and you're going to use Zoom, and Teams, and all these different protocols to do your business someday.
Gregg Lemkau - The Evolution of MSD (Capital Allocators, EP.291)
- ▶ 49:10 Gregg Lemkau And yeah, it's a bit of a pain to go commute, but if you want to teach the next generation and collaborate and have meetings that aren't starting and ending every half an hour by Zoom, you'll do much better together.
Neal Foard – The Art of Storytelling (Capital Allocators, EP.290)
- ▶ 40:01 Neal Foard Whether you're on a Zoom call and naturally they can't see your hands because it's above the shoulders.
Andy Acker - Empty Rooms: Investing in Biotech at Janus Henderson (Capital Allocators, EP.274)
- ▶ 25:09 Andy Acker In the age of Zoom, that's gotten a little bit easier.
Annie Duke – The Power of Quitting (Capital Allocators, EP.273)
- ▶ 7:01 Annie Duke It was probably two months later that I asked you to get on a Zoom with me.
Sarah Samuels – Framework and Rigor at NEPC (Capital Allocators, EP.264)
- ▶ 39:41 Sarah Samuels They were really engaged in Zoom meetings, whereas introverts love being at home.
Rob Citrone – Emerging Markets, Hedge Funds, and Staying in the Game (Capital Allocators, EP.261)
- ▶ 37:24 Rob Citrone I like to see them in person when I'm in the office or do a Zoom if I'm not, but I'll also text and email
Greg Dowling – Mid-Market Institutional Consulting at FEG (Capital Allocators, EP.248)
- ▶ 30:15 Greg Dowling It's really difficult to do a group Zoom or Teams call in terms of due diligence because you might have people talking over each other. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:39 Greg Dowling It is easy to drone on, on a zoom call because you can't pick up the cues.
Tom Lenehan – Taking the Helm at the Wallace Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.246)
- ▶ 10:28 Tom Lenehan For more intro meetings, from groups that are maybe in different locations, either in the United States or internationally, maybe those could be done on Mondays and Fridays, and maybe those can be done via Zoom.
- ▶ 29:36 Tom Lenehan Otherwise, if we were meeting a group from scratch, it's great that we can certainly meet them on Zoom, but until we actually get on the ground, walk the floor, meet the people, meet the team in person, one-on-ones, you can't do it.
- ▶ 48:19 Tom Lenehan A small team, we can get together multiple times a week, sometimes via Zoom, sometimes in person, and we can reset our priorities at any point in time.
Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- ▶ 40:49 Sebastian Mallaby I was talking on a Zoom call recently to the person who runs Accel in Bangalore, India, and he told me a great story, which I think illustrates the point here.
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 23:51 Josh Wolfe We were, and this was pre-COVID, on a Zoom, on a final board approval for the Facebook sale, and I looked at one of the co-founders who happened to sit in one of the common seats on the board, and I text Reardon, who is one of his…
Jamie Montgomery – March Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.26)
- ▶ 28:30 Jamie Montgomery You saw last year with Darius from Honeywell and the CEO of ServiceNow, the CEO of Qualcomm, the CEO of Zoom.
Christopher Zook – Thematic Investing and Raving Fans at CAZ Investments (Capital Allocators, EP.226)
- ▶ 36:32 Christopher Zook We just trusted people that we know are really good at what they do to do their jobs, and that's how we've participated in the Zooms and the Pelotons and the DoorDashes of the world, and we have great strategic partnerships with many in…
Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)
- ▶ 54:11 Bill Trenchard My latest work hack is during COVID, I realized I was sitting down too much in front of my computer and just going from Zoom meeting to Zoom meeting or paging through email after email. 3 times in the scene
Brian Higgins - King Street Capital (Manager Meeting, EP. 21)
- ▶ 28:11 Brian Higgins Literally the entire investment team gets in a room, or on Zoom, or what have you, and we go through every single line item in the portfolio.
Jordi Visser – Analytics and AQ at Weiss (Capital Allocators, EP.221)
- ▶ 21:14 Jordi Visser So it's been both fun, we've brought on a lot of different people to cover off, technology has helped because now we get to talk to them via Zoom, which means we can talk to 60 people at once. 2 times in the scene
Paula Volent – Star Endowment Manager's Next Act at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.219)
- ▶ 28:44 Paula Volent We're probably going to travel less because Zoom is working, but I do think there's a real value to kicking the tires on the ground.
Mike Smith and Nikhil Basu Trivedi – Footwork Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.12)
- ▶ 6:39 Beezer Clarkson We have since met him in person and more than lives up to any of the glory of Zoom, in fact.
- ▶ 33:19 Nikhil Basu Trivedi Our timing was good, and in some ways we probably benefited from the pandemic because we were able to raise this capital from our homes on Zoom versus having to travel to see 4 times in the scene
Luke Ellis – The Man Behind The Man Group (Capital Allocators, EP.214)
- ▶ 1:01:12 Luke Ellis Is we started a set of Webex zooms where somebody would talk about their personal interest.
Jennifer Heller – Beginner's Mind with Professional Wisdom at Brandywine (Capital Allocators, EP.211)
- ▶ 37:37 Jenny Heller We have two weekly team meetings, and then I'm meeting with every director once a week separately, even while we're on Zoom now, and so we're always discussing ideas at a pretty nascent stage at some level, but when it's really brought to…
Private Equity Masters 8 – Chuck Davis – Stone Point Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.207)
- ▶ 30:13 Chuck Davis So we didn't have to do a deal over Zoom with people we didn't know.
Private Equity Masters 4: David Rubenstein – Carlyle Group (Capital Allocators, EP.203)
- ▶ 13:11 David Rubenstein Now Zoom has made that different, but before Zoom, you had to show up. 2 times in the scene
Dan Ariely – The Human Capital Factor (Capital Allocators, EP.195)
- ▶ 17:32 Dan Ariely The moment you move to a digital platform like Zoom, the people who don't participate can have zero participation.
- ▶ 40:58 Dan Ariely You take a kid, you put them at home with Zoom, they can turn the teacher off.
Brian Bares – Qualitative Concentration at BCM (Capital Allocators, EP.191)
- ▶ 32:19 Brian Bares And so it's our goal for our junior analysts to get them up to speed as quickly as possible and get these reps in, which obviously has been more difficult during COVID having to do this over Zoom and remotely.
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 30:55 Jeff Hausenbold I could tell you how I passed on Zoom at six billion dollars because I thought that was too expensive, or I passed on Procore.
Ted with Jenny Heller – Compounding Knowledge and Relationships (Capital Allocators, EP.185)
- ▶ 28:03 Ted Seides If I have to choose between when I want to sit down and talk to someone or these days have a Zoom call, is that someone who I'm going to be compounding my relationship with and compounding knowledge by having that conversation?
Jennifer Prosek – Business Development and Leadership in a Virtual World (Capital Allocators, EP.177)
- ▶ 7:25 Jennifer Prosek Generate a new relationship over Zoom or in this video world, and it's definitely been more challenging.
- ▶ 13:40 Jennifer Prosek How are presentations different on zoom? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:08 Jennifer Prosek There's the one-on-one stuff that, to your point, we're a year into the crisis, so if you haven't figured out the platform that works for video, the lighting, we actually gave away, talk about gifting, give to receive, we gave away Zoom… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:17 Jennifer Prosek One bedroom apartments on zoom completely disconnected.
Private Equity Masters: Paul Salem – Providence Equity Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.175)
- ▶ 48:58 Paul Salem If you bought zoom stock in March, you're really happy right now. 2 times in the scene
Collette Chilton – Humility and Loyalty at Williams College (Capital Allocators, EP.174)
- ▶ 55:15 Colette Chilton oh, I'm going to this annual meeting, I'm going to see so-and-so, or we're all going to China at the same time, or, and I really miss that, and so when COVID started, a lot of people made more of a concerted effort to, like, regularly…
Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
- ▶ 7:23 Fran Kinniry As we're all now working from home, or many of us working from home with Zoom and other technology, Vanguard, when I arrived all the way back in 1997, was already fully virtual with its asset owners. 2 times in the scene
James Clear – Mastering Habits (Capital Allocators, EP.171)
- ▶ 17:43 James Clear Now we would do it on zoom, but basically the same thing.
Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
- ▶ 54:48 Shane Parrish I think it's really hard to start a connection during a pandemic or Zoom or anything like that.
Annie Duke – How to Decide (Capital Allocators, EP.156)
- ▶ 16:00 Annie Duke We're on Zoom.
- ▶ 1:30:40 Annie Duke So I played a couple of little, just sort of for fun, when the quarantine, when the lockdowns first started, my sister and brother-in-law put together a little something like a play money site with some people, and we were sort of Zooming…
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 4: Joel Wittenberg – A Prescription for the Future (Capital Allocators, EP.154)
- ▶ 28:32 Joel Wittenberg Now, the second one was over Zoom.
- ▶ 50:12 Joel Wittenberg People that can't get funding from the traditional VC firms out in the Bay, and needless to say, he's an early investor, I think it was Zoom, one of those, Zoom or Slack, I can't remember, but
Taimur Hyat – After the Great Lockdown (Capital Allocators, EP.149)
- ▶ 45:57 Taimur Hyat They miss their colleagues, they miss what one of them said was a three-D view of the world rather than the two-D view through Zoom and Webex and so on.
Sustainable Investing 10: Hiro Mizuno – Changing the Game (Capital Allocators, EP.148)
- ▶ 57:16 Hiro Mizuno I'm actually don't have a hobby now, so I was hoping to create a new hobby when I retired from the GPIF, but, uh, due to this coronavirus, I mean, I just becoming, like, spending more and more time on the Zoom from morning to the evening,…
Sustainable Investing 4: Emanuel Citron – Sourcing Sustainable Managers (Capital Allocators, EP.142)
- ▶ 20:08 Manny Citron We go visit them in their offices, or we, you know, we'll Zoom or video conference with them, but the, the idea is to engage in a dialogue so we can learn more about them,
Clarke Futch – Healthcare Royalty Partners (First Meeting, EP.20)
- ▶ 57:29 Clark Futch And so we're having an offsite in a couple of weeks, although it's going to be a zoom offsite. 2 times in the scene
Tim McCusker – Advising Through a Crisis at NEPC (Capital Allocators, EP.135)
- ▶ 12:57 Tim McCusker So we want to make sure that we do that, recognizing that whether it's a zoom call or some other form of video isn't going to capture that fully.
Andrew Golden – Navigating Princeton's Endowment Through (Another) Crisis (Capital Allocators, EP.133)
- ▶ 6:37 Andy Golden I mean, today, this morning, we pulled off a Zoom equivalent of our bull bear sessions. 3 times in the scene
Annie Duke – Decision Making in a Crisis (Capital Allocators, EP.132)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My friend Brian Portnoy recently put together a Zoom call where he and Jonathan Novy interviewed Annie Duke about decision-making in the crisis.
Ana Marshall – Applied Direct Investing at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.111)
- ▶ 46:23 Ana Marshall We Zoom a lot from wherever we are, but it really is this part of the reason I've kept the team so small is we're all within shouting distance from each other, and as you can see in our office, it's pretty small, and shouting distance…