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This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholz on Bloomberg Radio.

This week on the podcast, what can I say once again, I have an extra special guest.

Brad Gerstner is a founder and investor in technology startups. His firm Altimeter Capital runs over $10 billion. That's after returning a big

chunk of capital and profits to their investors. He's been doing this for about 20 years. They invest primarily in private

and public companies. They're no longer very much of a seed investor, although Brad himself was a very successful

entrepreneur. He either started or co-founded or came in to various startups,

four of which have had substantial exits, to say nothing of the

companies that he's invested in, either late-stage private or early IPO, and has done exceedingly well with. He has been

involved in more than a hundred IPOs. This is really a fascinating conversation

not just because of his Acumen as a venture investor, but one of the things that Brad is passionate about is making every child in America feel like they have a stake in the country.

They have some skin the game.

And his idea for starting every newborn in the country with a thousand dollar investment in the S&P 500, or as he calls it, Invest America,

is gaining traction not just amongst venture capitalists and corporate America, but on both sides of the

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