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I had no money back in 87, but certainly, you know, some of the managing directors and other people that had some money, they, they made quite a, quite a bit of of profits on, on some of the left for dead Microsoft and others that were just, you know, sold to very low levels as 00:06:28 [Speaker Changed] Opposed. We do a lot of surveys.
ELLIS: Well, it starts with one very simple proposition, nobody is making a profit. Every other investment organization got a problem that somebody is taking money out of the pot every day, every month, every year as a profit. I start a business to make a profit. I’ll get bigger, I’ll make more profits.
Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. But it makes a big, big difference to your long-term outcomes if you can just avoid those big losses.
And four nights a week, we were out to dinner, entertaining customers, getting to know them, talking about the markets, and that was an incredible education for me. And it was the most profitable day of trading I’d ever had. RITHOLTZ: This is data, voice, communications no matter where you are on the globe. WAGNER: Right.
But as a private equity owner, again, first of all, you do invest heavily of your own money in the transactions, plus you have additional ownership through, you know, the carried interest, the profits interests. There was XO Communication and McLeod. You got 60 percent of losses ahead of you. RITHOLTZ: I recall. KLINSKY: Right.
And interestingly, I’m happy to come back to these things I learned in helping companies through mergers, particularly around things like communications and shareholder relations, and employee engagement that have now served me really well, couple decades later in my career. RITHOLTZ: Is that true? That’s amazing.
I mean you mentioned it earlier on, I mean, Cliff’s hilarious and 00:14:09 [Speaker Changed] He’s a funny guy and it’s rare to find someone who is a quants who can communicate as eloquently as he can and at the same time has such a devilish sense of humor. What’s keeping you entertained?
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I always found the traditional economic homo economist of humans as rational, calculating profit, maximizing actors as just complete contradiction of real life experience. But then your left brain and your right brain don’t really communicate anymore. So, 00:08:30 [Speaker Changed] So that’s really interesting to me.
The New York Fed is kind of, I don’t know how to say this first, amongst the regional feds, because you’re located right in the heart of the financial community. What is the communication like back and forth between the New York Fed and major players in finance, especially in the midst of a crisis like that? All right.
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