First off, Greg doesn’t want to be famous and he says he’s “looking forward to being anonymous again.” The be-sideburned trader (in Greg Zuckerman’s The Greatest Trade Ever his ‘burns are described as “unusually long and thick” and in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short as those of a “1970s porn star”) announced this desire in a recent profile with which he not only cooperated but sat for on two separated occasions and spoke on the record, the genius of which is yet to reveal itself. Second, those hilarious “I’m short your house” shirts he had made back in ’06 when he was one of the few making hugely bearish bets on the housing market? He didn’t come up with that tag-line. “It’s juvenile. It’s funny in March of ’06 when everybody calls you Chicken Little. It’s not funny now,” he told the Observer. “It wasn’t my idea—that’s a fact, on my kids’ lives. … I definitely did not, on my kids lives. Somebody gave it to me.” Third, to those who think Lippmann comes off as “dickish” in Zuckerman and Lewis’s narratives, that’s just plain wrong.
“I think ‘dickish’ is the wrong word,” Mr. Brettschneider, [his partner at, Libre Max, the hedge fund he's about to launch] who speaks in a soft Canadian accent, said. “Just to finish that,” Mr. Lippmann added. “If you’re a die-hard Yankee fan, and you meet someone who’s a die-hard Red Sox fan, there’s an initial ‘He’s a dick,’ right? Because he likes the Red Sox and I like the Yankees. So the people that were rabidly bullish about this, that had invested their own careers on the opposite of me, it’s natural they’d be like, ‘Well, that guy’s a dick, because he disagrees with me. He’s not a dick for any credible reason. He’s a dick because I don’t like his opinion.’”
And finally, if you’re desperate for a sushi rec, you can still come to old Greggy, known as much for his ‘burns and bets as his Sushi Spreadsheet, though he personally does not partake in much raw fish consumption these days.
He isn’t dispensing as much Japanese restaurant advice, either. “I still update the spreadsheet, because people ask me to.” But in fact, he’s not eating much sushi anymore. “One, I don’t want to eat bluefin, because it’s a terrible thing,” he said. “And then, separately: mercury.”
Mr. Bubble Bounces Back [NYO]
I’m short your hedge fund.
i read: go Yanks
On my kid’s lives, I swear, this guy is dickish.
if, in an article about you, the word “dick” is mentioned 10 times, but the words “unusually long and thick” are used to refer to your sideburns, then, my dear children, you’ve lost.
PIK Toggles are the new killing it.
– Libre Max
I drink your milkshake
- Daniel Plainview
I know exactly where he got his shirt idea from. http://www.cafepress.com/bsdcouture/2316352
Does anybody have a copy of the sushi spreadsheet?
Is that Greg Lippmann or Keith Gordon, the lead actor in the movie Christine?
http://a69.g.akamai.net/n/69/10688/v1/img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/medias/nmedia/18/62/84/57/18821788.jpg
omg those poor, poor, poor kids
Thanks, Dad.
-Kid Who’s Skin Is Currently Crawling in Hell
Used to work near him on the floor at DB. Dude was universally regarded as one of the biggest assholes on the floor — treated his subordinates like shit.
I RENT, so suck on that, Lippmann!
suck and Lipp tee hee
And the moral of the story is.. everyone is effin expendable. DB used him to get the job done. They banked coin off his back. The guy is definitely a jergov if someone had to tell him to tone it down. And now someone one else is sitting at his desk, while he tries to replicate a once-in-a-lifetime win.
Go into teaching or a city job buddy, it ain’t going to happen like that ever again.
Dick.
Effin j*ws.
I coulda been a contender!
Tool, basically.
Sit at the bar, get the Ohmakase.
So, this douche worked at douche-tcha bank? Hmmm……
This guy is a pussy, I have a .45 for anyone that threatens my kids.
“dickish” …… big time , he swallows too
this guy foresaw the biggest crash since the depression and got rich thanks to his own insights, he’s entitled to be a dick
if he’s short my house, i’m short his life.
If this guy’s not eating sushi anymore, I’m going long on Mercury.
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I went to college with this guy. He has always been a dick. But he done good.
anybody know how much he raised? PAAMCO was supposed to be an early investor. Wondering if the SEC investigation changed that. He’s not registered with the SEC.
9q31JM Im obliged for the blog article. Will read on…