Boring_Business
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Phoebe Gates, and her co-founder, Sophia Kianni, went on "Call Her Daddy" podcast last year to talk about how they made up a fake male agent to negotiate on their behalf and land speaking deals at conferences At one point, Kianni mentions how she was afraid that everyone would believe that she was a fraud, but the fake agent "scheme" paid off as people started paying her well above $5K to speak at these events At one point, she even promoted this fake agent to "Chief of Staff" to make herself look more important and increase prices. At the end, the podcast host mentions that the biggest takeaway from this was the fact that this fake agent was a man
Boring_Business332,813 views • 8 days ago
Kevin O'Leary on why he throws away resumes with a consulting background in the garbage "Why would I take that risk? These are tainted people. They have a consulting disease. When they die, they are going to a lower place in hell because they are consultants."
Boring_Business661,720 views • 20 days ago
One of the most significant moments from the Trump Davos speech was when he said the quiet part out loud You cannot lower housing costs for young people without destroying millions in wealth for boomers "Every time you make it more affordable for somebody to own a house cheaply, you are actually hurting the value of those houses. I don't want to do anything to hurt the value of their house. If I wanted to crush the housing market, I could do that so fast that people could buy houses. But you would destroy people who already have houses." Our politicians are sacrificing people in their 20s and 30s for the prosperity of boomers Let that sink in
Boring_Business6,677,751 views • 5 months ago
Apollo Chief economist Torsten Slok was asked by Steve Eisman on what keeps him up at night His response? "This AI thing better work out." Just listen to this 2 minutes, and realize how our collective savings, retirement and prosperity have become reliant on AI
Boring_Business108,234 views • 5 days ago
This is the type of person you have to be to get hired at Citadel Ken Griffin once asked a Harvard graduate with a Citadel offer letter what he would do if he had $10 million in his bank account The young man replied that he would quit his job to travel and climb the highest peaks around the world Ken Griffin responded by saying that Citadel was not the right fit for him
Boring_Business2,141,252 views • 2 months ago
Proof that a lot of corporate work environments are just adult daycares in disguise
Boring_Business3,646,023 views • 7 months ago
Woman says that she wants a man > minimum height of 6’2 > a job with no earnings cap (corporate jobs making $150K not enough) > only takes business class flights > in shape and works out regularly If you do a quick AI search and also filter for men who are single, this describes roughly 0.1% of the population The most obvious societal outcome is her sharing this man with other women
Boring_Business5,430,619 views • 11 months ago
This was an eye opener from Jensen Huang When asked whether he would rather relive his 20s or be 20 years old today, this is what he had to say: "I thought our 20s were happier than these 20s. I think everyone deserves some time to be oblivious, and not wear all of the world's problems on their shoulders on Day 1 We are raising a generation that is very cynical and too informed They are cynical, not because they are inherently cynical. They are cynical because they see so much stuff. It is too much stuff You have to build up some internal reserve of optimism. You have to build up some reserve of goodness."
Boring_Business2,027,962 views • 5 months ago
Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein on hiring students from non Ivy league and prestigious schools "The average will be higher at these great schools, and certainly the bottom quartile will be higher. But if you look at the tippy-top of Harvard and the top of the University of Minnesota, they will be at least as good. Maybe better"
Boring_Business2,398,889 views • 6 months ago
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Bill Ackman on how he made $2.5 billion by hedging and shorting stocks during March 2020 Worth a listen "There was a massive storm coming. We could see the storm, but everyone else was playing on a beach. We bought a credit default swap on the index, and over a 10 day period, we bought about $74 billion notional of this insurance. It cost us only $27 million. 10 days later, it became worth $2.6 billion. We took that money in March 2020 with the market down 30% and bought stocks"
Boring_Business841,772 views • 3 months ago
Bill Ackman: "One thing I believe is that the private equity, venture capital and real estate portfolios are mismarked" Ackman on Harvard and Yale endowment's exposure to private equity and VC. One of the best clips I have seen From his recent interview at University of Austin
Boring_Business4,035,968 views • 1 year ago