I don’t care what Elon makes. I have benefitted (up until someone ran a red-light and totaled my Tesla) from Musk’s endeavors, including PayPal and various other companies. My life is better because of Jobs, Gates, Bezos, and yes, Musk.
I have never been a Sandy Weill fan myself. He turned Citibank into a large mess. It still has the distinction of being the worst financial institution I have ever worked with. He did mentor Jamie Dimon, though. Jamie is one of the more dynamic people I have ever met. Firm grasp on issues, no notes, incredible insight, and would make a great president in my view. I would vote for him even though he is a Democrat. Of course, he won’t run, and he is a billionaire, so there is that.
Hi Dan, Yes, Arthur Carter was one of a kind. In Litchfield County. where I live, we remember fondly his Litchfield County Times carrying all the good news of the arts, the stock market, real estate, but no bad news on crimes, tragedies, etc. It drew many people to the idyllic life in CT. I can try to help fill in information on another member of the original Carter, Berlind & Weill group, Werner Mendel. He and I dated during his transition from Wall St to founding and running the New Age Health Spa. Werner had been Sandy Weill's roommate at Cornell and handled arbitrage for the firm. I think we met and went to lots of New Age conferences: est, The Joy of Singing, Guru Muktananda. Werner had taken his family on a trip around the world after the first incarnation of CBW, got divorced and as the other partners did, found a new way...his was in the New Age. He dressed in all red as a follower of Muktananda, and Sandy Weill had no problem with his working in the General Motors building in that outfit. By that time we had drifted apart....He returned to his childhood roots in the Catskills, founded the New Age Health Spa. He was brilliant, interesting, interested and dynamic, as were they all at CBW.
From reader Eric Young:
I don’t care what Elon makes. I have benefitted (up until someone ran a red-light and totaled my Tesla) from Musk’s endeavors, including PayPal and various other companies. My life is better because of Jobs, Gates, Bezos, and yes, Musk.
I have never been a Sandy Weill fan myself. He turned Citibank into a large mess. It still has the distinction of being the worst financial institution I have ever worked with. He did mentor Jamie Dimon, though. Jamie is one of the more dynamic people I have ever met. Firm grasp on issues, no notes, incredible insight, and would make a great president in my view. I would vote for him even though he is a Democrat. Of course, he won’t run, and he is a billionaire, so there is that.
Hi Dan, Yes, Arthur Carter was one of a kind. In Litchfield County. where I live, we remember fondly his Litchfield County Times carrying all the good news of the arts, the stock market, real estate, but no bad news on crimes, tragedies, etc. It drew many people to the idyllic life in CT. I can try to help fill in information on another member of the original Carter, Berlind & Weill group, Werner Mendel. He and I dated during his transition from Wall St to founding and running the New Age Health Spa. Werner had been Sandy Weill's roommate at Cornell and handled arbitrage for the firm. I think we met and went to lots of New Age conferences: est, The Joy of Singing, Guru Muktananda. Werner had taken his family on a trip around the world after the first incarnation of CBW, got divorced and as the other partners did, found a new way...his was in the New Age. He dressed in all red as a follower of Muktananda, and Sandy Weill had no problem with his working in the General Motors building in that outfit. By that time we had drifted apart....He returned to his childhood roots in the Catskills, founded the New Age Health Spa. He was brilliant, interesting, interested and dynamic, as were they all at CBW.
Sounds like you knew those guys a lot better than I did!
Musk is not satisfied being the second most disgusting pile of rotten protoplasm on the planet.