Scott Bok
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484 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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You know, I actually answered that question early in the book because I think most people don't really understand.
They pay these big fees.
What do these people actually do?
And there's actually several things they do.
Number one, they may tell you is the right time for an acquisition.
They might tell you what is the right value for that acquisition.
They might tell you how your stock price might react to that acquisition.
Importantly, they also give the board of directors comfort that, you know, management hasn't gone off the reservation.
deal actually makes sense.
It's gonna get a reasonable response.
And so it's a kind of a very broad role.
And, you know, it's one thing I like about it versus say trading or so many other aspects of of of Wall Street is, you know, this is never going to be outsourced to AI.
Back so.
There's never going to be a button you push and an MA deal happens.
You know, each one is so different and so much just kind of the human touch of trying to get people on both sides of a transaction to come to agreement.
That indeed was the pitch, but you know, that pitch developed out of circumstances as opposed to being the original strategy.
Here's a short history of my career, which is kind of laid out in the book.
Okay, when I started in the business back in, you know, graduated from college in nineteen eighty-one, it's a terrible time.
Dow Jones is below a thousand, which at first crossed more than 10 years before that.
You know, MA almost unheard of, private equity hedge fund.
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