Michael Tracey

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1,212 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 20 Feb

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Epstein Files Special: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files · 20 Feb 2026 podcast

I mean, there's never been any evidence for that.

It was a nickname that was invented, it was a cheeky nickname invented by this British tabloid.

Not quite.

So...

I mean, there was a huge New York Times article that was one of the few helpful contributions to the popular knowledge around Jeffrey Epstein recently in December, where they basically set out to answer the question that everybody always asks with a wink and a nod, as though they think that the asking of the question is supposed to prove that the answer would be fundamentally sinister, meaning how did Jeffrey Epstein make his money?

Because the idea is that he must have made his money

by dint of his orchestration of this pedophilic sex trafficking ring that he enforced by blackmail at the direction of the Mossad or something like that.

And the New York Times goes into fairly forensic detail about how he ended up accumulating money over the course of the 1980s.

So people could go read that if they'd like.

I mean, I do think that it's fair to say, and saying this does not mean that you have to condone everything that Jeffrey Epstein ever did over the course of his entire life, but I do think that he was definitely very high intelligence.

I do think that he was

highly proficient in mathematics as a young man, which is part of why he became a math teacher at the Dalton School, a pretty prestigious private school in Manhattan.

Then ends up getting recruited to Bear Stearns and ends up innovating some novel financial maneuvers that you're probably much more fluent in than me in terms of describing because I'm not a finance guy.

But it was around a time where there was a demand for Wall Street to innovate new tactics for very high net worth individuals to structure their wealth.

to lessen their tax burden, to do all kinds of other things.

And Epstein did so.

And then he leaves Bear Stearns.

So he rose to the ranks of Bear Stearns pretty quickly.

So around age 24, 25, he was like a partner or he had some relatively high ranking position relative to the rest of the workforce at Bear Stearns at a young age.

He starts up his own boutique

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