Jamie Dimon
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788 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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So we actually went through all that.
And the price was right.
I say there was a huge, in this case, a huge margin of error in the price.
So they had 12 billion book value.
We're buying it for it ultimately became a billion, all of which we wrote off by the way.
So I tell people that we knew that was, we needed that to clean up the balance sheet basically and merge the companies.
And we had the management team was going to run it the next day.
So we were in pretty good shape.
We said, okay, you're about to fight a war.
Well, you got an army, you got the people, you know what you're doing.
But when you, that last thing, when the board has voted and they bring, and you actually have to sign the piece of paper and you know, when you're signed that piece of paper that you've just committed the company, not just yourself, you know, you've just committed your 150,000 people at a time, you know, to backbreaking scary work for 12 months.
And that your shareholder would be under pressure, that this would create political pluses and minuses.
Yeah, you know you're entering a maelstrom that you could have avoided.
At this particular case, the door was good for the country, that J.B.
Moore could handle it, that we were going to get something of benefit out of it.
It had a commercial plus to it.
But yeah, you feel a pit in your stomach.
And that when you feel a pit in your stomach, that is lonely too.
You are kind of by yourself and signing that piece.
Yeah, I wouldn't make it binary like that.
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