William D. Cohan on M&A Investment

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with financial journalist William D. Cohan, who is the bestselling author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, and The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co., among other books. A former Wall Street M&A investment banker for 17 years, Cohan is also a founding partner at the media company Puck. His latest book, Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon, was released in November.

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0:00.0	This is Mesters in Business with Barry Redholz on Bloomberg Radio.
0:08.7	This week on the podcast I have an extra special guest.
0:12.3	Bill Cohen is a fixture on Wall Street for a long time both as an investment banker at
0:19.7	Lazard Frares and eventually Merrill and JP Morgan Chase.
0:25.1	As well as an author, he is one of the co-founders of Pock.
0:37.4	A number of fascinating books.
0:40.2	Arguably a sort of parallel career to Michael Lewis.
0:43.2	He's at Lazard Frares for seven or eight years and then sometime later writes his version
0:49.0	of Liars Poker which is a history of Lazard Frares.
0:52.4	His most recent book Power Failure about the rise and fall of General Electric is really
0:57.8	a fascinating history with some fun stories and a lot of real interesting gossip throughout
1:03.4	it.
1:04.4	It's deeply research, deeply reported and really a very enjoyable read.
1:09.0	I think you'll find this conversation quite fascinating.
1:12.2	I know I did with no further ado, my conversation with Bill Cohen, author of Power Failure.
1:21.4	William Cohen, welcome back to Bloomberg.
1:24.9	Thank you Barry.
1:25.9	It's great to be here.
1:26.9	Let's talk a little bit about your career which began as a reporter, went into M&A banking
1:32.8	and then went back to writing.
1:35.0	You start writing for the rally times.
1:37.1	Tell us a little bit about what you were doing there.
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