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!
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first post,
spode is a bitch as nigga
Vayner = Yale
This post is BL posting as JC.
@3– except that it’s not funny, so no.
Fannie and Freddie need to hire Vayner in order to survive
wow wait until she finds out about — whoa! what’s that in 1!?!? The “n” word (not the “N” word)!
Where’s that chinaman?
One of banking sites should do a news story on where Vayner is now and what he’s up to. DB, get on it!
Q: whats he up to? A: married What kind of answer is that. Did he ever get a job?
Good job @ 1. Mayo was slow
Anyone want to go to a luncheon? I have extra tix.
@8 if he did he’d have fit right in with all the other psychos that started hedges.
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.
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.
It was UBS that leaked his video resume. Who got the last laugh?
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.
12- english is not your 1st language I hope?
yea kid def looks like he benches 500lbs (or whatever bs he claimed), must be that whole, ya know, yale thing…
@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
@10 – I’ll do lunch. Email me with dets, m2b2us@yahoo.com
are you sure she isn’t 12 years old? is she from Russia?
are you sure she isn’t 12 years old? is she from Russia?
@21 – Vayner is not Russian, he is a jew born in Uzbekistan
I got a happy ending from his wife. I was told she loved guys in finance….I told her I was a bank teller.
I got a happy ending from his wife. I was told she loved guys in finance….I told her I was a bank teller.
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.
@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.
Acturally she met her husband on millionaire&celeb datingsite Seekwealthy.com last year. Good luck to this couple.
@15 Shouldn’t you be long stupidity? I think that should be the last thing you hed– oh wait.