Scott Bok
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484 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I left between the announcement and the closing of the Dean Whitter merger.
with Morgan Stanley.
The firm is gonna go from a few thousand people to forty some thousand people.
And to be honest, I never saw myself working for a place with forty thousand people.
And so I was kind of open to the idea of going to a smaller, more focused place.
Nice.
So when Bob called, I took the call and went there very quickly.
I think it does differ quite a bit.
So first the question of sort of traders versus bankers.
I mean trading is an analytical profession.
It's a I think it's more of an individualistic profession.
You know, you're the guy trading a particular kind of security.
screen.
Look, you spend a lot of time at the screen and you also are tied to the market.
I mean, your day, you get there really early in the morning because you want to be ready for markets to open.
You're there for the full day, the market's closed, you go home pretty soon after that.
Investment banking is much more of a team sport where literally, you know, in your junior years, you're sitting there at nine o'clock having, you know, pizza or Chinese food you just ordered in with your colleagues because you've
Got two more hours or three more hours of work to do that night.
So it's a real camaraderie that develops in investment banking and deal making, in part because people live together so much.
They work long hours and they also travel together.
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