Rob Reid
speaker
1,484 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Rob Reid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't like people who deliberately try to think in my way, Mattioli told me.
Besides, why should I pay a man for thinking the way I do?
I can do that for myself.
It would be a waste of money.
Sundays and holidays mean nothing to him.
He tends to become even more caustic.
He tends to become even more caustic than usual when any of his executives indicate that they would like to take a vacation.
Recently, when one man broke a leg on the last day of a long vacation, Mattioli proclaimed the accident an act of poetic justice.
He says that money means nothing unless it is being used.
And he's another example of one of these merchant bankers that think you should just be reading history and philosophy and stay away from any of the business publications and the newspapers.
I love, there's all these other ways that they're describing their own profession.
And I think this is a great way to think about merchant banking.
It says, Wall Street produces money in a much bigger, more impersonal way.
It's like the difference between a handmade Rolls Royce and a production line Cadillac.
So let's go back to this idea that they leverage their relationships and they are individual opportunity driven.
So they will also incubate companies as well.
So this is a story from Lehman Brothers way before they collapsed.
They were a successful merchant bank.
said Lehman Brothers had the imagination and courage to tackle such ventures.
Years ago, it embarked upon a thorough study of the potash industry that lasted for months.
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