1977
Brad Gerstner said his father became general manager of an auto-parts manufacturing plant in 1977.
“So 1977, he becomes a general manager of the auto parts manufacturer.”
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Brad Gerstner
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1991
Brad Gerstner said Ross Perot spent tens of millions of his own money on television to campaign against the national debt in 1991.
“spent tens of millions of his own money to go on television in kind of a goofy way with poster boards and rail against the national debt.”
2001
Brad Gerstner said National Leisure Group grew to over a billion dollars in gross bookings.
“We built the business to over a billion in gross bookings.”
2005
Brad Gerstner recalled that his investment in Zillow's Series B was about $20 to $30 million at a valuation of a couple hundred million dollars.
“We may have put in 20 to 30 million bucks. And if I recall, it was a couple hundred million dollar valuation.”
2009
Brad Gerstner said the stock market bottomed on March 9, 2009, not in 2008.
“So the market bottomed, not in 2008, on March 9th, 2009.”
2012
Brad Gerstner said Altimeter raised its first dedicated venture pool in 2012 largely by passing the hat among existing investors.
“But we raised that first pool in 2012. It was basically passing the hat.”
Undated
Brad Gerstner said that he and Altimeter have participated in over 100 IPOs.
“And I'm an IPO lawyer, spent 20 years in the public markets. We've worked on, you know, participated in over 100 IPOs, right?”
Undated
Brad Gerstner proposed Invest America, in which every child born in the United States would receive a government-seeded investment account.
“If you gave every single one of them an Invest America account. So think of that as a Robin Hood account on their parents' phone”
Undated
Brad Gerstner estimated that the Invest America program would cost the federal government less than $20 billion a year.
“In the scheme of things like this is less than $20 billion a year for the federal government.”
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