Coffee With the Grates - Coffee With the Grates

i persuaded bill simon to start a firm. He didn't want to be a principal, because he didnt want to take principal risks. So that's why decide i would build my own principal firm if i could find some i knew how to do that. In hind sighto it was the biggest professional gamble as i started the firm and it fumbled. It wasn't like law firms ere gong to come back and say, well, we really want somebody that' fumbled building at a private equity firm in washing wh don't you come back tond practise law? Ah, but i do remember my mother saying, David, you're going to go into business. You don