Scott Bok

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Odd Lots · Scott Bok on How Bankers Spread the Gospel of Capitalism · 19 May 2025 podcast

And so I was happy to let, you know, Bob Greenhill, a generation older me, be a more senior, more important guy.

And by the way, if you stay in the advisory business, I mean, your client should always be more important than you.

So you have to kind of subordinate yourself to the CEO that you

Chairman of the board.

I mean, you're whispering in their ear.

You're giving them great advice.

Often you're giving that advice to the whole board, but it's not all about you.

You know, it's supposed to be about the client, the client's objective, and so on.

So, you know, lucky for me being at the firm I was at, I did end up almost like Forrest Gump, being in an interesting spot for the dot-com crash, the financial crisis, 9-11, the COVID.

I mean, I sort of saw all those.

And

You know, I I'm not sure what I would pick would do the most surreal, but that's a that's a really good question. 'Cause there were there were a lot of them where you know, where you just kind of can't believe you're you're there at kind of this critical kind of pivotal moment during one of these crises.

There is this backlash.

Look, I think an interesting book for somebody other than me to write would be where do we go next in what I would call the whole transaction ecosystem?

Because I know when I started out, I mean I kinda talked about how the nineteen seventies, again, I was a very, very young person then, was kind of a stagnant decade, really very little economic growth, very in no stock market growth, et cetera.

I think the a country needed a real jolt.

of energy and activity and kind of a market for new shareholders to take over companies and run them differently.

You know, at some point there's gotta be diminishing returns on that.

And and we now have this huge industry of lawyers and bankers that sort of do that kind of thing.

Yeah.

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