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Podcast Appearances
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One of the great...
things that happened in my career was there was a point where, you know, how like you grind at a level and then, you know, you just get exposed to things at a different level.
And then you grind for years and you get exposed to things at yet another level.
In one of those steps, I was very fortunate to be introduced by Thomas Lafont, actually, to the head of Wachtell Lipton.
There's a law firm.
Law firm.
And his name is Ed Herlihy.
And he said, this is the most important, well-known, well-run, powerful law firm in America.
Then I looked at the transactions and they're just in the middle of everything.
And now, you know, my lawyer, Raj Narayan, who does everything for me, one of the senior partners at Wachtell, I can attest are incredible.
And they said to me in the middle of all of this
stuff when I was doing a bunch of deals.
They said, just get ready to pay a tax.
And I said, what does that mean?
They said, the way that the American capital markets are set up is both that you can be incredibly creative and do incredible things.
But, and we talked about this a little bit last week, there's a bunch of tort that allows folks to hang around the hoop and get paid no matter what.