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Donnel Baird: Goldman and Microsoft debt provides most of BlocPower's capital
“The majority of the capital that we've raised is actually from Goldman and Microsoft, and we have to repay them. And so, every dollar that we take in from them has to have a plan where we can give them four, five, six, seven percent return. Out of the profits …”
Baird: Investing $5T to green buildings will yield $700B in returns
“Someone's gonna make, like.7 trillion dollars by investing five trillion dollars. So someone's gonna make, like, huge fortunes, right?”
Twine: Trying to be indispensable at Goldman Sachs led to exploitation
“My goal of making myself indispensable to protect my career during a tumultuous time probably put me in the position of being taken advantage of at times.”
Toby Egbuna: Chezzi has 1,400 stories and roughly 1,200 users
“We Have about 1400 stories from companies at some companies like Google, Goldman Sachs, Facebook. We have around 1200 people signed up for our platform, maybe around 1212 150. I haven't checked today.”
Bain Capital passed on buying OtterBox, doubting the phone case market
“We worked with Goldman, and we worked with, I still remember talking to an old guy at Bain Capital, and his name was Josh, so Josh, if you're listening He said, well, I don't know where Case will be in five years.”
Nancy Twine reached VP at Goldman Sachs while bootstrapping Briogeo
“Because this would have been 2011, 20 12. I had just become a vice president, so I had gotten promoted, but I was also trying to allocate time to work on Briogeo, so.”
Nancy Twine: Brother refused to let her join his venture
“While I was at Goldman, I was seeing a therapist, and prior to my mom's passing, I was even thinking about, you know, what life beyond Goldman looked like, and she encouraged me to see if I could join my brother in his entrepreneurial ventures, and he said, yo…”
Twine Kept Briogeo Secret From Her Goldman Sachs Team
“No one in my immediate team knew that I was working on this project. I had a couple of friends at Goldman that I confided in, but only a couple that I knew would not say anything, because I was serious about my work, and I didn't want to compromise that, and I…”
Twine's Goal to Avoid Layoffs Led to Exploitation at Goldman Sachs
“My goal of making myself indispensable to protect my career during a tumultuous time probably put me in the position of being taken advantage of at times. There were, I'm sure, some of my classmates who would never come in on a Sunday night randomly because th…”
Naficy: Began selling bonds on Goldman Sachs trading floor at age 20
“So I was 20, and I was eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the office, and I was actually selling, I had a desk on the bond trading floor, and I was selling bonds as well as doing, working with clients. So before I could actually drink, I was selling bonds.…”