Apparently controlling the Federal Reserve, funding their bonuses with billions in taxpayer dollars and quite nearly bringing down the global economy with their degenerate gambling habits isn’t enough.
Wall Street now wants to punish any Democrat who lifts a hand against them, and they’re willing to fund primary challenges to do it.
Carolyn Maloney worked to push through the Credit Card Holder’s Bill of Rights, which may not have gone far enough to limit the ability of Wall Street robber barons to gouge credit card holders. But it will cost the credit card industry about $10 billion a year, and that was apparently a bridge too far for Steve Rattner, Orrin Kramer, Maureen White and other Democratic party oligarchs who are now funding hedge fund darling Reshma Saujani’s primary challenge as a way to punish Maloney for her transgressions.
From the Washington Post:
has worked at three hedge funds. She speaks the arcane language of derivatives and basis points and mortgage-backed securities. Saujani has positioned herself as the anti-Maloney, the only candidate who understands how stressful and difficult the past few years have been for some of the wealthiest people in America.
Poor dears. Yes, the Masters of the Universe are so very put upon in these hard times. It’s only right that they be allowed to have their own member of Congress, if they can afford one:
Since she entered the race in November, Saujani has received more than $800,000 in campaign contributions, an impressive tally for an untested candidate. Many of those checks came from New York financiers and their spouses.
Former Morgan Stanley chief executive John Mack has given her money. So has Apollo Management founder Leon Black and the wife of J.P. Morgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon. Hedge fund mogul Marc Lasry hosted a fundraiser for her featuring singer John Legend that brought in a clean $100,000.
She has also attracted help from prominent New Yorkers. Maureen White, a major Democratic donor and wife of financier Steven Rattner, is introducing her to potential donors. Diana Taylor, a Republican former investment banker and the longtime companion of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I), is advising her campaign.
Maureen White, the former National Finance Chair of the DNC (who was able get a story about her DUI yanked out of the New York Times thanks to the close personal friendship between her husband Steve Rattner and Pinch Sulzberger), thinks that now is the right time to be publicly attacking the recently widowed Maloney for just not being quite sharp enough for the job:
Saujani’s supporters openly question Maloney’s fitness to serve and her intellectual heft. In an interview, White, the major Democratic donor, called Maloney “a good person.” But she said, “There’s a lot more to being a good representative: leadership, intelligence, hard work, a creative approach to policy, thinking things through.
“When you look at this district, it should have a star,” White added. “We need the best of the best, and I think Reshma is in that category in a way Carolyn isn’t.”
And why does White think Reshma’s got the intellectual ballast? Well, because Reshma understands that “the financial industry has been unfairly demonized in Congress”:
“Populism for the sake of populism, to increase poll numbers, is not helpful,” she said. “We need to have people in Washington who feel comfortable with understanding regulatory markets, economic terms. . . . I don’t think that she has practical real-world experience.”
Yes, that angry rabble who just don’t understand how Very Important our Wall Street Overlords are just need to STFU and graciously accept the leadership of someone like Reshma, whose glowing resume includes:
- Chief Operating Officer of a fund at Carret Asset Management, the hedge fund partially controlled by Hassan Nemazee, who recently pled guilty to running a Ponzi scheme that looted $292 million from banks to pay for a yacht, a Maserati and a Cesna, among other perks.
- Associate General Counsel for The Carlyle Group’s Blue Wave Partners Management, which invested in mortgage-backed securities. Unsurprisingly, Reshma doesn’t support current legislation to regulate derivatives trading.
- Deputy Chief Operating Officer of the Liquid Markets business at Fortress Investments, the hedge fund that owned a subprime mortgage lender that “foreclosed on New Orleans homeowners who fell behind on their payments after Hurricane Katrina.” Reshma says she was “unaware of the problem.”
Reshma has convinced the Right People that she’ll be there for them. Even Mike Bloomberg has blessed her, through his girlfriend Diana Taylor, quoted in the Washington Post article:
“Reshma has a strong fundamental understanding about how the industry works,” Taylor said. “You’ve got these people [in Congress] yelling and screaming who know nothing about what they’re talking about — nothing. And it just creates a huge problem.”
Oh yes, Congress and their “screaming and yelling” about Wall Street. They really have been terribly unfair to the poor banks. No wonder the Masters of the Universe feel they’re entitled to their own member of Congress to address this terrible injustice. And they’re writing the checks that fund her.
Aaron Patzer, the founder of Mint.com (2008), sold his company to Intuit for $170 million and has been ensconced as Vice President and General Manager of Intuit Personal Finance Group. But he hasn't forgotten his entrepreneurial roots. He's using that stack of cash from Intuit to make some angel investments of his own, including a stake in Jack Abraham's Milo.com, which is on this year's list. And he's also an informal advisor to Anapata's Ooshma Garg.
When he appeared on the 30 Under 30 list in 2008, Etsy founder Rob Kalin had just hired a professional CEO and given up day-to-day management responsibilities. But last December, Kalin retook the reins. Etsy has thrived since–the company is profitable and has been posting double-digit monthly sales gains. In his spare time, Kalin is working on a second company, Parachutes.org, an online education start-up.
Chaim Indig and Evan Roberts, the founders of Phreesia (2008), closed a $16 million Series D investment from Ascension Health Ventures in May. Phreesia, a self-service patient check-in company that makes electronic tablets for use in doctors' offices, will use the investment to expand its nationwide presence.
Involver founders Rahim Fazal and Noah Horton (2008), have added Facebook, the White House, and Sony Music to their client list. Involver, which helps companies and organizations build their video presence across social networking platforms, now supports more than 80,000 brands.
It's been a big year for Ben Lerer and Adam Rich and their company Thrillist (2009). Early in 2010, Lerer and his father Ken, co-founder of The Huffington Post, launched the New York City-based angel fund Lerer Media Ventures. And in the spring, Thrillist made its first acquisition, expanding into the e-commerce space with the purchase of Jack Threads, a flash-sale site for men's streetwear that works similarly to Gilt.com. With the deal, Thrillist diversifies its business, which was heavily dependent on advertising revenue, while Jack Threads will get its name in front of Thrillist's nearly 2 million e-mail subscribers. “We have the e-mail list and they have the vendor relationships,” Lerer says. “The case we made is that it would be just so much easier for them if they didn't have to worry about building the audience.”
Box.net's (2008) Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith grew their company more than 535 percent in 2009 and tripled revenue in the first half of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009. Box.net allows users to share, store, and access any type of digital file from anywhere at anytime, and now has more than 4 million users, ranging from SMBs to giants like Volvo, Audi and Coca Cola. The company launched one of the first customized business applications for the iPad, developed mobile applications for the iPhone and Blackberry, and also integrated with other mobile productivity applications. Last April, the founders landed $15M in Series C financing, led by Scale Venture Partners, bringing Box.net's total venture funding to $29.5M. Levie and Smith plan to invest aggressively in R&D and will add a significant number of employees.
Ben Kaufman (2007) sold Mophie in August of 2007 and began developing Kluster, a platform designed for group decision making and measuring influence. It's Kluster that drives Quirky, the social product development company that Kaufman launched in June 2009. Quirky develops one new product a week and shares the revenue with the influencers who helped develop each product. Since launch, Quirky has collaboratively developed 46 new products, hit threshold on 16 (the trigger that sends a product into production) and raised $6 million dollars in series A financing led by RRE (also an investor in Venmo, on this year's list.)
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Apparently controlling the Federal Reserve, funding their bonuses with billions in taxpayer dollars and quite nearly bringing down the global economy with their degenerate gambling habits isn’t enough.
Wall Street now wants to punish any Democrat who lifts a hand against them, and they’re willing to fund primary challenges to do it.
Carolyn Maloney worked to push through the Credit Card Holder’s Bill of Rights, which may not have gone far enough to limit the ability of Wall Street robber barons to gouge credit card holders. But it will cost the credit card industry about $10 billion a year, and that was apparently a bridge too far for Steve Rattner, Orrin Kramer, Maureen White and other Democratic party oligarchs who are now funding hedge fund darling Reshma Saujani’s primary challenge as a way to punish Maloney for her transgressions.
From the Washington Post:
has worked at three hedge funds. She speaks the arcane language of derivatives and basis points and mortgage-backed securities. Saujani has positioned herself as the anti-Maloney, the only candidate who understands how stressful and difficult the past few years have been for some of the wealthiest people in America.
Poor dears. Yes, the Masters of the Universe are so very put upon in these hard times. It’s only right that they be allowed to have their own member of Congress, if they can afford one:
Since she entered the race in November, Saujani has received more than $800,000 in campaign contributions, an impressive tally for an untested candidate. Many of those checks came from New York financiers and their spouses.
Former Morgan Stanley chief executive John Mack has given her money. So has Apollo Management founder Leon Black and the wife of J.P. Morgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon. Hedge fund mogul Marc Lasry hosted a fundraiser for her featuring singer John Legend that brought in a clean $100,000.
She has also attracted help from prominent New Yorkers. Maureen White, a major Democratic donor and wife of financier Steven Rattner, is introducing her to potential donors. Diana Taylor, a Republican former investment banker and the longtime companion of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I), is advising her campaign.
Maureen White, the former National Finance Chair of the DNC (who was able get a story about her DUI yanked out of the New York Times thanks to the close personal friendship between her husband Steve Rattner and Pinch Sulzberger), thinks that now is the right time to be publicly attacking the recently widowed Maloney for just not being quite sharp enough for the job:
Saujani’s supporters openly question Maloney’s fitness to serve and her intellectual heft. In an interview, White, the major Democratic donor, called Maloney “a good person.” But she said, “There’s a lot more to being a good representative: leadership, intelligence, hard work, a creative approach to policy, thinking things through.
“When you look at this district, it should have a star,” White added. “We need the best of the best, and I think Reshma is in that category in a way Carolyn isn’t.”
And why does White think Reshma’s got the intellectual ballast? Well, because Reshma understands that “the financial industry has been unfairly demonized in Congress”:
“Populism for the sake of populism, to increase poll numbers, is not helpful,” she said. “We need to have people in Washington who feel comfortable with understanding regulatory markets, economic terms. . . . I don’t think that she has practical real-world experience.”
Yes, that angry rabble who just don’t understand how Very Important our Wall Street Overlords are just need to STFU and graciously accept the leadership of someone like Reshma, whose glowing resume includes:
- Chief Operating Officer of a fund at Carret Asset Management, the hedge fund partially controlled by Hassan Nemazee, who recently pled guilty to running a Ponzi scheme that looted $292 million from banks to pay for a yacht, a Maserati and a Cesna, among other perks.
- Associate General Counsel for The Carlyle Group’s Blue Wave Partners Management, which invested in mortgage-backed securities. Unsurprisingly, Reshma doesn’t support current legislation to regulate derivatives trading.
- Deputy Chief Operating Officer of the Liquid Markets business at Fortress Investments, the hedge fund that owned a subprime mortgage lender that “foreclosed on New Orleans homeowners who fell behind on their payments after Hurricane Katrina.” Reshma says she was “unaware of the problem.”
Reshma has convinced the Right People that she’ll be there for them. Even Mike Bloomberg has blessed her, through his girlfriend Diana Taylor, quoted in the Washington Post article:
“Reshma has a strong fundamental understanding about how the industry works,” Taylor said. “You’ve got these people [in Congress] yelling and screaming who know nothing about what they’re talking about — nothing. And it just creates a huge problem.”
Oh yes, Congress and their “screaming and yelling” about Wall Street. They really have been terribly unfair to the poor banks. No wonder the Masters of the Universe feel they’re entitled to their own member of Congress to address this terrible injustice. And they’re writing the checks that fund her.
Aaron Patzer, the founder of Mint.com (2008), sold his company to Intuit for $170 million and has been ensconced as Vice President and General Manager of Intuit Personal Finance Group. But he hasn't forgotten his entrepreneurial roots. He's using that stack of cash from Intuit to make some angel investments of his own, including a stake in Jack Abraham's Milo.com, which is on this year's list. And he's also an informal advisor to Anapata's Ooshma Garg.
When he appeared on the 30 Under 30 list in 2008, Etsy founder Rob Kalin had just hired a professional CEO and given up day-to-day management responsibilities. But last December, Kalin retook the reins. Etsy has thrived since–the company is profitable and has been posting double-digit monthly sales gains. In his spare time, Kalin is working on a second company, Parachutes.org, an online education start-up.
Chaim Indig and Evan Roberts, the founders of Phreesia (2008), closed a $16 million Series D investment from Ascension Health Ventures in May. Phreesia, a self-service patient check-in company that makes electronic tablets for use in doctors' offices, will use the investment to expand its nationwide presence.
Involver founders Rahim Fazal and Noah Horton (2008), have added Facebook, the White House, and Sony Music to their client list. Involver, which helps companies and organizations build their video presence across social networking platforms, now supports more than 80,000 brands.
It's been a big year for Ben Lerer and Adam Rich and their company Thrillist (2009). Early in 2010, Lerer and his father Ken, co-founder of The Huffington Post, launched the New York City-based angel fund Lerer Media Ventures. And in the spring, Thrillist made its first acquisition, expanding into the e-commerce space with the purchase of Jack Threads, a flash-sale site for men's streetwear that works similarly to Gilt.com. With the deal, Thrillist diversifies its business, which was heavily dependent on advertising revenue, while Jack Threads will get its name in front of Thrillist's nearly 2 million e-mail subscribers. “We have the e-mail list and they have the vendor relationships,” Lerer says. “The case we made is that it would be just so much easier for them if they didn't have to worry about building the audience.”
Box.net's (2008) Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith grew their company more than 535 percent in 2009 and tripled revenue in the first half of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009. Box.net allows users to share, store, and access any type of digital file from anywhere at anytime, and now has more than 4 million users, ranging from SMBs to giants like Volvo, Audi and Coca Cola. The company launched one of the first customized business applications for the iPad, developed mobile applications for the iPhone and Blackberry, and also integrated with other mobile productivity applications. Last April, the founders landed $15M in Series C financing, led by Scale Venture Partners, bringing Box.net's total venture funding to $29.5M. Levie and Smith plan to invest aggressively in R&D and will add a significant number of employees.
Ben Kaufman (2007) sold Mophie in August of 2007 and began developing Kluster, a platform designed for group decision making and measuring influence. It's Kluster that drives Quirky, the social product development company that Kaufman launched in June 2009. Quirky develops one new product a week and shares the revenue with the influencers who helped develop each product. Since launch, Quirky has collaboratively developed 46 new products, hit threshold on 16 (the trigger that sends a product into production) and raised $6 million dollars in series A financing led by RRE (also an investor in Venmo, on this year's list.)
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