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Steven Klinsky on Building Businesses

Masters in Business

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The LBO Division at Goldman Sachs

I wanted to be a Supreme Court Justice and then I realized John Roberts who was a year ahead of me was the guy who was going to be. There were some pretty smart dudes at Harvard Law School. So is that what ultimately leads you to starting at Goldman Sachs? Well I decided I thought about corporate law. And so I joined Goldman in their merger department but said I'd like to be your LBO guy. They said we've never done it. It was like saying I want to be the wheat farmer on the moon. The LBO group has probably started in 82 and it was already a big success in 84 when I got courted away by force and little they poached me

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