Now, you weren't probably in the room with the CEO, but you might have a sense of. Of how accurate that was.
Acquiring Minds
Getting Unstuck by Buying a Business
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I mean, I have a confession to make. I've never seen the movie. I've read all of Michael Lewis, his books, including I just finished reading Going Infinite.
But I'm much, much more of a book guy than a movie guy. People. People, you know, like. Like Moneyball people.
Like, I love that Moneyball movie. I'm like, I read the book. I don't know.
Okay, but.
But having read several accounts of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, I mean. Yeah. So I don't know, maybe you. You could. You would have to describe the scene for me in the movie for me.
Well, we'll do that offline. Or maybe it's worth 10 minutes. Yeah.
Like, I was. I was sitting on a trading desk, right? So I had like, four screens, and I have my Bloomberg terminal open, and I'm just watching the market basically crash. Like, I'm watching the meltdown.
And I remember watching Goldman Sachs stock, and every tick, it was like, down a dollar. Like, every time, like a tick would. It would. It would repopulate the graph.
After every five seconds, it was down like a dollar. And I'm like, this is it. Like, this is. You know, this is the.
You know, this is the meltdown. And, you know, you were right.
And it was there.
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