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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
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... See more
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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
What can someone who's built multiple billion-dollar companies teach you? Some lessons from my conversation with Brad Jacobs: 1. If you get the major trend right, you can make mistakes and still succeed. 2. If you want extraordinary results, you can’t think like everyone else. 3. Complexity hides opportunity. 4. Focus on return on capital and
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Embracing Paradox
Exploring the balance between opposing principles in investment, such as trust versus skepticism, patience versus urgency, and transparency versus confidentiality, emphasizing the importance of harmony in decision-making.
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The innovative mindset of questioning everything, as exemplified by Steve Jobs, and how companies lose this vision.
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Steve gives some great advice on how to think about building great products. He says, your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them. It's a rare person who etches grooves that are other than a specific way of looking at
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