Entry: Getting You Out Of Jail Free

posted by gatekeeper

Mar 31, 2008 3:49PM

I'd rather go to Chino than have to listen to Celine Dion for a month.

Entry: The April Fool's Day Head-fake

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 01, 2008 4:54PM

I personally thought this was the best damn joke I've seen in a while: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/04/internet-hoax-g.html

Entry: Targeted

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 02, 2008 3:38PM

Pershing Square was up 29.3% gross in 07, and 22% net, this is NOT REAL AT ALL. Plus, high brow hedge funds don't tend to print their financial statements on fuckin typewriters.

Entry: Targeted

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 02, 2008 3:41PM

Oh nevermind, onetwo is right, this is PS IV (get it?). Yea, if $1m was 90+ percent of partner's capital, I don't think ackman would be in the news everyday. Aren't you all supposed to be math people?

Entry: Targeted

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 02, 2008 3:42PM

Yea, but it's not the same Gotham as Gotham Asset Mgmt, Ackman's Gotham Blew up years ago.

Entry: Targeted

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 02, 2008 3:48PM

HAHAHAHAHA... no its real, did I say 1m? whoops!

Entry: Ten Reasons We Will Still Date Bill Ackman

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 02, 2008 5:20PM

reading the muff post: eh, but I'll never get back the 2 minutes from going through these comments.

Entry: Tim Sykes: Issuer of the Badge of Honor or the Scarlet Letter?

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 07, 2008 2:51PM

Well done Bess, I email this to you at 9:30 Chicago time and it's already up? Impressive. A shout-out would have been appreciated though, bitch.

Entry: Tim Sykes: Issuer of the Badge of Honor or the Scarlet Letter?

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 07, 2008 3:01PM

@guest -- I don't spend my days on DB jerking off to pics of Gasparino and analyzing alter egos.

I deducted it was bess from AJ's comments, you fucking loser. So sorry I don't know who the fuck Equity Private is. I'm a bit busy here managing money that doesn't have the monopoly man's face on it.

Entry: Tim Sykes: Issuer of the Badge of Honor or the Scarlet Letter?

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 07, 2008 3:14PM

@guest-- Yea I can see that, but thanks for pointing out the obvious. Let me spell it out for you...

I thought Bess WAS Equity Private as a result of AJ's comments, I don't sit around reading DB all day so forgive me for this unimaginable misconception.

This mistake apparently ruined your day. Don't worry, your mom is on her way with your pacifier and power rangers blanky. Let it all out.

20 yrs in business and we've only been down (marginally, at that) twice. $14b in clients kind of let us do our own thing at this point. But we appreciate your concern.

Deduct my balls in to your mouth, guest.

Entry: Tim Sykes: Issuer of the Badge of Honor or the Scarlet Letter?

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 07, 2008 3:18PM

Point taken 3:16, deduced is correct, and so unlikely of me to make such grammatical craps like that.

Entry: Tim Sykes: Issuer of the Badge of Honor or the Scarlet Letter?

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 07, 2008 3:19PM

@3:16, we're a hedge fund in chicago

Entry: Tim Sykes: Issuer of the Badge of Honor or the Scarlet Letter?

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 07, 2008 3:26PM

same guest, it was a back and forth, 3:19.

I've got work to do, I've had enough of this for one sitting. and all I fucking did was mention an email I made earlier and I get the haterade like the 10 plagues. Wow. Loyal following over here... you people are so gay.

Entry: Tim Sykes: Issuer of the Badge of Honor or the Scarlet Letter?

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 07, 2008 3:32PM

the bitch thing was a joke, I apologize to the fan club if that wasn't clear. Ok, really going now.

Entry: Worth It For The Burrito?

posted by gatekeeper

Apr 28, 2008 5:31PM

Show me a finance professor that will assign merit to technical "analysis" on penny stocks and I will show you a school whose degrees aren't accredited. UofMinn, I WILL report you to the American Council on Education if you don't watch your respective mouths.

Entry: Maria Bartiromo 3.0?

posted by gatekeeper

Jun 11, 2008 11:48AM

I went to DePaul, and I work at a hedge fund. I thought this industry only cared about one thing... what was that one thing again? If I remember correctly, Nelson Peltz didn't graduate from college. Sandy Weill almost didn't either.

Entry: Maria Bartiromo 3.0?

posted by gatekeeper

Jun 11, 2008 12:08PM

I know a partner at GTCR (Big PE Firm) Who went to UIC, which is even shittier than DePaul. Then he went to HBS and worked for McKinsey. I'm not sure about the douche who works in IT, but every school has morons and geniuses. I have a friend who graduated from harvard and now tends a bar. Anyway, Tap or Pass? I go with Tap.

Entry: Maria Bartiromo 3.0?

posted by gatekeeper

Jun 11, 2008 12:41PM

@12:34
No, I'm assuming you should take academic achievements for what they're worth, but not bet the farm on them. If someone has a 4.0 out of a good school, that's a good thing. But that doesn't mean all that much in the end. Nor is it true that not having a good GPA out of a good school means you're dumb and not ambitious enough for success.

And a lot of HBS grads don't come from great undergrad programs.

Entry: Maria Bartiromo 3.0?

posted by gatekeeper

Jun 11, 2008 12:41PM

I'm not 12:14, but I'd assume you should take academic achievements for what they're worth, but not bet the farm on them. If someone has a 4.0 out of a good school, that's a good thing. But that doesn't mean all that much in the end. Nor is it true that not having a good GPA out of a good school means you're dumb and not ambitious enough for success.

And a lot of HBS grads don't come from great undergrad programs.