Bill Perkins | WUW 341

Washed Up Walkons

Tyler Kluver

Sports, College Football, Ncaa Team, Nfl Draft, Big Ten, Athletes, Hawkeyes, Iowa

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Bill was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1969. His Father played football for the Hawks, eventually earning his degree and moving on to Seton Hall Law. Bill followed in his dads footsteps as he didn't quite have a plan until after college. We talk about what those year were like, how Bill felt he was wasting his potential and never really giving a full effort, and how all of that eventually drove the change to chase big dreams. After earning his own degree is electrical engineering he moved to New York, got into oil trading, energy markets, and eventually started his own hedge fund. A belief in himself that he was capable of stepping up to the plate and hitting home runs with his work ethic allowed him to do the required jobs that would provide him the lifestyle he wanted to live. We discuss what he learned after becoming 'rich' and what he would go back and change. We talk about his memories of conditioning at Iowa, what he thinks of Kinnick stadium and the current day Game Day environment, playing poker with the best in the world, being friends with Dan Bilzerian, and a whole lot more!

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0:00.0	episode 341 of the podcast I could explain how we got this guy on and it still
0:07.0	wouldn't make sense Bill Perkins joins the show today and he's got more money
0:11.1	than God himself more successful than the three of us on this
0:14.7	podcast will ever be, plays poker with billionaires, hangs out with Dan Bilzarian, runs a hedge fund,
0:21.5	and happens to be a Hawkeye. Let's have a day. Let's go Oh, I'm not. Welcome back, Washab Walk on's fans, episode 341 of the podcast.
0:57.0	And today is probably the coolest day that we've had yet.
1:01.0	Cluever and I were unbelievably giddy, waiting to record this
1:05.8	podcast because we have a guest on that we really never expected to be able to have a
1:10.3	conversation with. This is a guy who is a former Hawk, always a Hawk,
1:16.0	former Hawk football player just like us and somebody who has been wildly successful in all of his other life endeavors.
1:26.9	A guy I've been a fan of leading all the way back to like 2000 and I don't know, 13 on high stakes poker. I'm a big poker nerd. You've been watching this guy battle it out with the
1:39.5	legends of the poker world in the highest stakes for years and years.
1:45.9	Chills with Dan Bilsarian, pretty sure owns a yacht if I've seen his
1:50.3	Instagram correctly.
1:57.0	Venture capitalists, Iowa legend Bill Perkins. Welcome to the Wash of Walk-ons and thank you so much for being here, man.
2:00.0	Thank you, thank you.
2:01.0	It's weird to hear my name like a legend, but you know, I'm having fun. I'm winging life and I'm having fun. So I can talk about it on how I got there and you know how luck and work and you know circumstances got me there.
2:14.4	Bill if you're winging it,
2:15.6	yeah you gotta be happy with how that turned out man.
2:18.0	Yeah, it's...
2:19.0	I forgot to add award-winning author to that intro.
2:22.4	Yeah, that was... I'm actually pretty... award-winning author to that intro.
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