# Frank Quattrone

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LinkedIn

Ben and David cover the 3-day-old acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft for $26.2 billion. They cover LinkedIn’s founding story by Reid Hoffman, break down their core businesses, analyze recent stock behavior, and speculate on the future of the company inside Microsoft. The big question - were they …

Drinks With The Deal: Fried Frank’s Epstein on Lessons Learned From Early Banking Stint

Steve Epstein, the co-head of M&A and PE at Fried Frank, discusses his time as a junior banker in Frank Quattrone’s tech group at Credit Suisse, his return to the law and the challenges of running a group.  

20VC: Are IPO Windows Shut? Has Regulation Killed the M&A Market? M&A OG Frank Quattrone on Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN and Taking Amazon, Cisco and Netscape Public

Frank Quattrone is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Qatalyst and served as its CEO from the Firm's founding until January 2016. Over more than four decades, Frank and the teams he has led have advised on more than 600 mergers and acquisitions with an aggregate transaction value over $1 trill…

Paul Giannamore Unfiltered: Hustling Out of Chicago, Cracking Wall Street, and Building POTOMAC M&A

Meet Jason & Jeremy Julio—the Blue-Collar Twins turned eight-figure sellers— as they step in as your new co-hosts of The Boardroom Buzz. In their maiden voyage they flip the script, putting mentor Paul Giannamore in the hot seat to uncover the back-alley hustle that took him from inner-city Chicago…

The Day Amazon IPO-ed at $0.08 / share!

Blind Squirrel Macro: The Pod (Episode 87) - Recorded May 15th, 2025. Audio-only edition embedded below and also available in the usual ‘Blind Squirrel Macro: The Pod’ feeds on the podcast apps. “Amazon.com is the leading online retailer of books. Since opening for business as "Earth's Biggest Boo…

E175: Elon Musk: 10 Billion Humanoid Robots by 2040? w/NEA Partner Aaron Jacobson

Aaron Jacobson is one of the most insightful thinkers at the intersection of AI, robotics, and cybersecurity—and in this conversation, he separates signal from noise. We explore the future of humanoids, the shifting threat landscape in cybersecurity, and why the next wave of industry-defining compa…

Letter to Bill Gurley: Five Fascinations

"I couldn't discover something that got me excited. Slowly, I've come around to an idea that I made up. It's not a career that other people have." - Bill Gurley to Tim Ferriss Bill Gurley's first principle is "find your passion." But how did Bill actually find his? He didn't have one passion - he h…

Founding Haveli & AI's Real Cost | Brian Sheth, Haveli Investments

Most people who spend two decades building one of the most consequential enterprise software investment platforms in private equity don't stop and start over from scratch. Brian Sheth did. Brian spent his career defining what technology-focused private equity looks like at the highest level before …