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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

Eric, as you know, I grew up in suburban New Jersey and in suburban New Jersey, we ate a lot of Benihana growing up and I love the Americanized version of this deeply traditional Japanese meal. This doesn’t concern any specific industry, but that kind of behavioral finance. On Deciens’ Lean Operation.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. I was the division president for the northeast division on 9/11, and all the stores in New York and New Jersey and, obviously, all the east coast stores for Circuit City were mine.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

But then by my second year, I had a real interest in finance. And then a year out of school, I was getting married and actually in New Jersey, but my family was visiting me. You’ve got to build equity value." But at the same time, if schools get closed or weird, you can lean much more heavily on them.