And we are joined by the men gestured speaking there, David Rubenstein is the cochair of the National Book festival. At what point did you decide to become involved with the library of congress and National Book festival . A number of years ago when Jim Billington was still the librarian of congress, i made a modest contribution and he asked me to get involved. I got involved as the cochair and eventually the chair of the medicine counsel which is the support arm of the library of congress. It does not have enough money to get everything that it once from congress so they try to get philanthropic support. The medicine counsel is that arm and i have charted for the last several years. You have the money to donate because you are an investor. Your recent focus how to invest masters on the craft. When did you start investing . I started a large private equity and Firm Private Equity firm. I would not say i am a great investor but people in the firm are great investors. This people is desi
And we are joined by the men gestured speaking there, David Rubenstein is the cochair of the National Book festival. At what point did you decide to become involved with the library of congress and National Book festival . A number of years ago when Jim Billington was still the librarian of congress, i made a modest contribution and he asked me to get involved. I got involved as the cochair and eventually the chair of the medicine counsel which is the support arm of the library of congress. It does not have enough money to get everything that it once from congress so they try to get philanthropic support. The medicine counsel is that arm and i have charted for the last several years. You have the money to donate because you are an investor. Your recent focus how to invest masters on the craft. When did you start investing . I started a large private equity and Firm Private Equity firm. I would not say i am a great investor but people in the firm are great investors. This people is desi
And we are joined by the men gestured speaking there, David Rubenstein is the cochair of the National Book festival. At what point did you decide to become involved with the library of congress and National Book festival . A number of years ago when Jim Billington was still the librarian of congress, i made a modest contribution and he asked me to get involved. I got involved as the cochair and eventually the chair of the medicine counsel which is the support arm of the library of congress. It does not have enough money to get everything that it once from congress so they try to get philanthropic support. The medicine counsel is that arm and i have charted for the last several years. You have the money to donate because you are an investor. Your recent focus how to invest masters on the craft. When did you start investing . I started a large private equity and Firm Private Equity firm. I would not say i am a great investor but people in the firm are great investors. This people is desi
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And eventually the chair of the medicine counsel which is the support arm of the library of congress. It does not have enough money to get everything that it once from congress so they try to get philanthropic support. The medicine counsel is that arm and i have charted for the last several years. You have the money to donate because you are an investor. Your recent focus how to invest masters on the craft. When did you start investing . I started a large private equity and Firm Private Equity firm. I would not say i am a great investor but people in the firm are great investors. This people is designed to give insights into what make people great investors. did you talk to . I dedicated the book to Warren Buffett whom i previously talk to. Michael morris who helped to build sequoia, one of the best venture firms, another great investor, one of the great overall macro investors, joe simons who helped invent quantitative investing, larry fink who built blackrock. A number of people. We