Sublime

The company pays enough to attract quality talent—but not enough to make people fat and happy or to create the country-club atmosphere Jeff is trying to avoid.

Private equity, family offices, and retiring entrepreneurs who cash out of bigger companies are all looking to buy businesses you turn around, roll up, or explode in EBITDA.

Is he irreplaceable? Is he the Steve Jobs of JPMorgan Chase?

achieving big goals in turbulent environments where conventional thinking often fails.

American public companies tend to treat international markets as cash cows, sources of bonus revenue

The firm had bent over backward to make Sam happy. They’d interviewed the two closest friends Sam had made at MIT and hired one of them. They even hired Sam’s younger brother, Gabe, who had just started on the Jane Street trading floor. They’d allowed Sam to play a central role in cooking up and pulling off a trade on the 2016 presidential election

Jack Morgan might have the minds of other American bankers, but Ivar had the hearts of American investors, and those investors now had the power. Ivar didn’t need to lend his own money to France. Instead, he could act as an intermediary, raising money from the Americans and lending their money.