Dan Loeb
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548 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Jun
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But he took me to meet a broker and I started investing.
And then in high school, in the 11th grade, I got a job at the branch office.
of Payne Webber working for a guy named Alan Crown who let me post his books and make cold calls.
And I think we broke certain securities laws, but I think the statute of limitations is passed.
I would trade options on Occidental Petroleum and Teledyne.
There was a lot of volatility and I think I had flurries of making money and lost all of it a couple of different times, but it was a good lesson.
I continued doing it in college and then
My learning started really formally at Warburg Pincus, where I really learned to value enterprises as my first job, kind of across the spectrum of private equity and venture capital.
I worked at a risk arb firm, which was really invaluable.
And then skipping forward, I had way too many jobs in my 20s, but I got really serious at Jefferies.
I had an amazing opportunity to work on the distressed debt desk there.
I started out as a research analyst and I was just like drinking out of a fire hose.
There was so much activity.
The securities were so cheap coming out of distressed.
And it was, you know, the 10,000 hours, 10,000 reps.
We would write up different things every day.
There were big blocks of debt to move.
And I really got, that was my real learning point.
And, you know, I stress this to people that, you know, everyone kind of sees mentorship as a sort of hierarchical thing where you, you know, learn from some wise older person, but it's,
I learned a ton from my colleagues, from my own cohort, and I learned a ton from my customers.
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