An email to a friend who asked me to explain the crisis…
I’m no expert but I thought this might be useful to someone. Edits encouraged. “Lehman and AIG have a lot of money tied up with bad assets (that were poorly priced subprime mortgage bundles or a...
View ArticleSome Perspective
About six months ago I took my first full time job out of undergrad at a major investment bank in NYC. From a few months before graduation, and continuing with an ever increasing frequency since,...
View ArticleBanking on a Startup Life
Today marks my one year anniversary at TheLadders. I came to TheLadders after one year in investment banking in the Morgan Stanley east coast technology group. Walking in the door on September 14th,...
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Make Your Lessons Painful, Join a Bank
A few weeks ago I wrote about my experience in Investment Banking and compared it to my experience at TheLadders. I’ve spent one year in each role, which means I’ve only had one year to test the claims...
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Creating Something Big, Alone
I spent the past two weeks on vacation, eating delicious food, relaxing in the sun, and enjoying my favorite band. I also managed to make my way through two books that came highly recommended from...
View ArticleDon’t Learn How To Code, Learn How To Make Things
There’s a lot of chatter and hype around normals learning how to code. I’m fully in support of the hype because I (like many others) believe that understanding how machines work is an increasingly...
View ArticleHow To Change The World
I recently read George Packer’s, Change The World, which is something of an excerpt from his recently published book, The Unwinding, and now I am moved to say something about it. Unfortunately, you’re...
View ArticleNotation Capital
Today Nick Chirls and Alex Lines announced that I will be lending a hand at Notation Capital as a part-time partner. Electric Objects is more than a full time job at this point, but I couldn’t pass up...
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