Scott Bok

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

It was a different flavor for companies.

And many of them were worried about conflicts, or maybe they liked a real small firm approach, or they liked the hands on sort of senior guys working on the day to day aspect of the deal.

And and so it worked very well.

And, you know, and and really a whole bunch of firms followed us into that once we actually went public and had a lot of success with that.

History.

Uh sure, sure.

So I uh worked at Morgan Stanley for about 10 years after a brief time at the law firm Wachtel Lipton doing MA.

I was at a vastly different level than Bob Greenhill.

He is a full generation, probably 25 years older than I am.

So at the time I moved for some period to London for Morgan Stanley, I was an associate, pretty lowly job at the firm.

Bob was president, pretty senior job at the firm.

By the time I came back, he was gone.

What had happened?

And you guys alluded a few minutes ago to, you know, why are sort of bankers and traders under the same roof?

Well, back in those days was when that was first happening, and that caused a bit of a turf war really between a power struggle really between Bob Greenhill and John Mack, who obviously went on to an extraordinary career in a in a couple of different places.

And as trading really grew in terms of scale and volume and how much money you could make, how greatly you could scale that.

Volume.

Business and put capital to work, you know, the investment banking business became less important.

I I mentioned in my book a great quote from a mentor of mine at Morgan Stanley, who I don't mention his name, but he used to say investment banking is the hood ornament on the Mercedes.

Mm-hmm.

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