Anand Giridharadas

This is why this piece is so good.

Random finance man.

But it turns out these things are complicated.

So there's a moment where Jeffrey Epstein has a lot of money and that money needs managing.

And the managing of that money brings in millions of dollars of fees.

So that's kind of the base layer.

There's some point at which J.P.

Morgan becomes interested, and Jess Staley specifically becomes interested in the idea that J.P.

Morgan is not doing enough business with regard to hedge funds.

And hedge funds were this kind of growing category, and Jeffrey Epstein seems to have proximity to this ascendant world of hedge funds where a lot more money is moving.

And so Jeffrey Epstein can make introductions in that world that then become very valuable.

the founder of Google.

I think this is so interesting, but here's how I explain it.

The more powerful you are and the more you rise in these hierarchies, the more of a bureaucracy around you there becomes, right?

You, Ezra Klein, if I'd tried to reach out to you 20 years ago, I could have just probably emailed some Gmail address, right?

But now you got a podcast, I gotta go through this person, I gotta go through this person.

So actually, the more important thing

these stratospherically powerful people become.

There's publicists and the publicists have publicists and there's this person, there's that person.

And that's why actually a TED conference or these kinds of worlds are valuable because Sergey Brin is actually in the bar