Brad Gerstner
speaker
3,957 appearances
19 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 17 Sep
Brad Gerstner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In all seriousness, with great power comes great responsibility.
Sometimes the enthusiasm people can have can exceed reality.
going direct, you've become more measured, I've noticed, as your profile has gone up.
I think all of us have to just make sure people don't blindly follow trades.
And you were talking stuff down on CNBC a couple of times, saying, hey, I don't think the average American needs to be in some of these companies.
There's time.
That's not- And then they come rushing in and they could be maybe playing not so good cards.
It does feel, Gavin, like we have crossed over for early stage venture to a point in which
There is a third way.
Either your company had M&A, and we saw in the presentation yesterday that during the wrath of Lena Kahn, there was no M&A, and it just froze the market.
Now it's coming back.
IPOs, we did have some freezing of that market for certain periods.
But this third way is now fantastic.
I can tell you as the earliest of the early, we are now pari persu selling into every chance we get because our average investment is at 10 to $20 million valuations.
When they hit 500 million, I tell the founder, you're gonna start selling at 500 million, I'm gonna sell right alongside you so that I can invest in the next
you coming into the market, everybody's fine with it.
But I can tell you six or seven years ago, when I did this with a company, they begged me to not participate when they hit peak Zerp 2021.
They begged me, J. Cal, you have to be loyal to us.
You can't sell pari parsu.
And I said, you guys are clearing 40 million of the $110 million round.
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