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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

But as a private equity owner, again, first of all, you do invest heavily of your own money in the transactions, plus you have additional ownership through, you know, the carried interest, the profits interests. There was XO Communication and McLeod. You got 60 percent of losses ahead of you. RITHOLTZ: I recall. KLINSKY: Right.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

Barry Ritholtz

Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit. I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. We’re more startup than established entity, so not everybody has that ability. And that’s sort of the math.