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01 / evaluation
“I think a lot of people won’t go into government service now because you have to sell all your assets if you go into government service, and that’s a barrier to some people.”
02 / evaluation
“Google, Facebook, Microsoft have gigantic lobbying operations now because they realize that the government of the United States can impact their businesses in a way that they didn’t probably realize when they first started these companies.”
03 / evaluation
“I think CBC is another one that’s public. But generally, they are privately owned because they’re too small to be publicly traded companies.”
04 / evaluation
“Lawyers tend to be very process-oriented and very systematic, and as a result, they tend not to take big leaps of faith because you’re taught in law school to worry about precedent.”
05 / evaluation
“When Google was ready to go public, people knew there was so much demand for this that you didn’t need an underwriter, probably, to take off the fees that they would probably take off because their underwriting fees might be anywhere from 4 percent to 6 percent.”
06 / evaluation
“I think venture capital is more of a bet on a concept, more of a bet on an entrepreneur, whereas private equity, you have six months, typically, to do the due diligence.”
07 / evaluation
“First of all, the market — and you are a market economist — people are getting 2 and 20 because that’s what the market will say is appropriate.”