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Mike Speiser is one of the most unique investors who isn't as well known outside the valley.
At Sutter Hill, he incubates one startup at a time, acts as founding CEO and gets it off the ground.
His track record is insane, creating $70B of value from 5 companies over 15yrs! https://t.co/B4Gg4pGzmn
I'd love to read a book on the most interesting #2's in the world. often so much more impressive, candid, and worth learning from
pierre godé to bernard arnault
warren to charlie
wells to eisner https://t.co/u1knQpsHJV
Years later, after Grove had learned to appreciate this, he read Peter Drucker’s The Practice of Management, which described the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action. Grove realized that instead of being embodied in one person, such traits could exist in a leadership team. That was the case at Intel,
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In it’s heyday, Goldman’s special situations group was the navy SEALs of money making. Today’s guest, Alan Waxman, used to run that group before leaving to build Sixth Street, now a $115b behemoth.
SSG heads were sometimes of the more brainy, nerdy variety. Not Waxman. He is a force of nature and energy who apparently w... See more
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Steve Schwarzman started Blackstone in 1985 with a $400k initial investment.
Last year, they crossed $1 TRILLION under management.
Here's what he says about hiring 10s https://t.co/6KZI5Nu4fk