I grew up a huge Seattle Sonics fan and was despondent when I found out that Clay Bennett was moving the team to Oklahoma City. But earlier this year I was delighted to learn that a hedge fund manager by the name of Chris Hansen of Valiant Capital is seriously planning on building a new stadium in the Seattle area which will likely put a new NBA team back in the emerald city.
I tried to dig up some info on Chris Hansen and Valiant capital but the only things I could find were some articles and wikipedia pages related to the Sonics.
I was wondering if anyone knew anything about how much money they manage, what kinds of strategies they have and what Chris Hansen's background is.
Don't work for Chris Hansen. It's a trap. A bunch of cameramen will jump out of dark corners.
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Tiger cub. Multi-strat. Look at anything globally. Managed around $3bn at the end of 2011. You won't find much info about them online.
They were an early investor in Facebook:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2012/05/09/facebooks-hedge-fund…
Annoying tech investors but love them and Chris is a smart dude. Not sure how much they have under management now but equity port looks like about 1b.
Does anyone know how they recruit for analysts/associates or which head hunters they use? Asking from the perspective of someone in his second year of IB.
It's a pretty small team. I'm not sure they have any type of regular or active recruiting program. I'd also expect that they hire from their existing network versus ever using a headhunter.
they use HHs and do actively recruit analysts (from banking, etc.). most junior hires are in a 2 yr program, similar to banking.
My information may be dated. I know 2 people that work/worked there and this wasn't the case a couple of years ago. Please disregard what I said above...
My contacts didn't go through a HH.
Maybe. I would say keep in mind that fund started in early '08, so 2-3 years ago they may have been less institutionalized (i.e. no HHs, etc.). In any case my info is from a friend who currently works there / the recruiter they use.
Would you mind sharing then name of the recruiter they use? PM is fine also. Thanks a lot for the info guys.
Valiant Capital (Originally Posted: 06/03/2012)
Does anyone know anything about Valiant Capital Management? They don't have a website and there's very little disclosed about them publicly. All I know is they were an early buyer of FB and one of the only hedge funds to get in at the time they did.
Anyone have insight on the culture or anything about this firm really?
TIA
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