Ken Langone
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I said, well, God damn it.
You guys are a pain in the ass, too, okay?
So anyway, he gives me the deal.
The rest of Wall Street is stunned.
Here's this little piss-ass railroad find-outs.
Getting the most short-ass piece of business probably in the last five or ten years.
And we go through the whole process.
He wants to know how we're going to do it.
I go, Ross, I'm going to make you one promise I didn't tell you before.
I'm personally going to be on every meeting with every investor.
That's what I intend to do.
Are you sure?
Oh, I know.
He calls me up at the very end and decided he's going to give me the business.
One of the friends that wanted it was G.H.
Walker.
There was a guy there by the name of Jerry Lodge who he knew and who he liked.
When Lodge heard that we were going to do the deal at 100 Time Journeys, he said, Ross,
We'll go to a harder time journey and we'll be co-managing.
So Ross called me up and said that he'd gotten this call and how do I feel about having a partner?