The Blackstone of Innovation - by Kyle Harrison
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Venture Capital Is The Name, AUM Collection Is The Game
This is a weekly newsletter about the art and science of building and investing in tech companies. To receive Investing 101 in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Biographies can be incredibly humanizing. You take these people that feel larger than life, and hear about their mistakes and embarrassments. One story that I enjoyed comes from the book "What It Takes," by Stephen Schwarzman, the founder of Blackstone. As a junior banker, he'd built a financial model (pre-Excel, just cranking out paper calculations), and as he and his boss were flying to present it to their client his boss…
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