Do you remember Aleksey Vayner? In what seems like another era--mostly, because it was another era--Aleksey Vayner was a cocky kid who claimed to be running a hedge fund while he was an undergraduate at Yale. He submitted a resume to a couple of investment banks that included a line about his website.
That website turned out to feature the most ridiculously self-aggrandizing video that we'd ever seen. For a few moments we thought it was a fake. The name--sounds like "Vainer"--was just too perfect. But the video was real enough. Soon it was the talk of the town.
So what's Vayner up to now? Well it looks like everyone's famous all-dancing, weight-lifting, pretend hedge-fund managing egomaniac is married, according to an anonymous tipster at IvyGate. We wish them at least as much joy as they brought us two years ago!
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:06PM
first post,
spode is a bitch as nigga
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:11PM
Vayner = Yale
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:14PM
This post is BL posting as JC.
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:15PM
@3-- except that it's not funny, so no.
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:21PM
Fannie and Freddie need to hire Vayner in order to survive
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:22PM
wow wait until she finds out about --- whoa! what's that in 1!?!? The "n" word (not the "N" word)!
Where's that chinaman?
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:22PM
One of banking sites should do a news story on where Vayner is now and what he's up to. DB, get on it!
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:24PM
Q: whats he up to? A: married What kind of answer is that. Did he ever get a job?
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:24PM
Good job @ 1. Mayo was slow
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:26PM
Anyone want to go to a luncheon? I have extra tix.
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:27PM
@8 if he did he'd have fit right in with all the other psychos that started hedges.
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:31PM
actually, I believe lunch/luncheon is like who/whom. Both words have the same meaning, but the second has a haughty and old fashioned ring and should therefore be avoided.
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:37PM
11 People that start hedge funds tend to have been someplace else first. A lot of them were unfortunately better at gathering assets than managing them, but thats a different story. People don't get out of college (even Yale) and simply start hedge funds. It may be that you're confused because of all that run around NY (especially late at night or at charity events)and claim that they manage their family's money. Truth is they're just layabouts.
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:47PM
It was UBS that leaked his video resume. Who got the last laugh?
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:51PM
I'm starting a hedge fund that invests in commemorative plates, tiny destination-based spoons and 9/11-related coins sold on late night TV. I will hedge through short exposure to an index of companies and assets (chosen through a proprietary method) which perfectly correlates to human stupidity.
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 4:52PM
12- english is not your 1st language I hope?
Posted by Anal_yst , Sep 08, 2008 4:53PM
yea kid def looks like he benches 500lbs (or whatever bs he claimed), must be that whole, ya know, yale thing...
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 5:41PM
@12:
who/whom are grammatically different.
Lunch means just a meal but luncheon implies there is an activity ancillary to the meal.
Going to a strip club and having lunch or going home to screw your wife/gf at lunchtime could both be considered a luncheon
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 5:49PM
@10 - I'll do lunch. Email me with dets, m2b2us@yahoo.com
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 6:19PM
are you sure she isn't 12 years old? is she from Russia?
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 6:21PM
are you sure she isn't 12 years old? is she from Russia?
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 6:32PM
@21 - Vayner is not Russian, he is a jew born in Uzbekistan
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 8:08PM
I got a happy ending from his wife. I was told she loved guys in finance....I told her I was a bank teller.
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 8:08PM
I got a happy ending from his wife. I was told she loved guys in finance....I told her I was a bank teller.
Posted by beentheredonethat , Sep 08, 2008 8:29PM
Sorry y'all missed the foie grois:
lunch·eon (lnchn)
n.
1. A lunch, especially a formal one.
2. An afternoon party at which a light meal is served.
Federer in straight sets. John McEnroe says hello to y'all.
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 9:39PM
@15 I like the idea, leverage it up with a portfolio of scratch off lotto tickets and you'll be the top asset manager in South Carolina.
Posted by guest , Sep 08, 2008 10:41PM
Acturally she met her husband on millionaire&celeb datingsite Seekwealthy.com last year. Good luck to this couple.
Posted by guest , Sep 09, 2008 1:52AM
@15 Shouldn't you be long stupidity? I think that should be the last thing you hed-- oh wait.