Cold-Email Response from Billionaire's

...assistant.

I emailed a well-known activist investor who gave the graduation speech at my high school asking for advice. His son graduated the same year I did and we happened to know each other.

Got an email about a half hour later from the assistant saying he will be out of the area.

Anyway I can pursue this without coming off as annoying? Or get past the assistant?

I just asked for a few minutes and some advice.

Should I ask when he will be back in the office? Never had this happen before... not used to cold-emailing billionaires.

15 Comments
 

Just ask when he'll be back and if it's possible to schedule a 15 minute call. I literally just had that same conversation this morning and scheduled a call with the Head of Fixed Income at a top MM.

 
DaisukiDaYo heister:

Just give him a ring, ya mean brah?

What does that last part mean ?

Seriously?

Follow the shit your fellow monkeys say @shitWSOsays Life is hard, it's even harder when you're stupid - John Wayne
 
heister DaisukiDaYo: heister:

Just give him a ring, ya mean brah?

What does that last part mean ?

Seriously?

ya srsly

I eat success for breakfast...with skim milk
 

Ya mean brah? = You know what I mean Bro?

" The art of good business is being a good middle man" - Eddie Temple (Layer Cake)
 
StryfeDSP

Just ask when he'll be back and if it's possible to schedule a 15 minute call. I literally just had that same conversation this morning and scheduled a call with the Head of Fixed Income at a top MM.

This, and if you don't hear back it was probably just a nice way of saying, "Get lost" without making you lose face.

 
Joshua93 StryfeDSP:

Just ask when he'll be back and if it's possible to schedule a 15 minute call. I literally just had that same conversation this morning and scheduled a call with the Head of Fixed Income at a top MM.

This, and if you don't hear back it was probably just a nice way of saying, "Get lost" without making you lose face.

this isn't china, we don't care about "face"
 

Am I the only one that's impressed that an assistant is a billionaire?!?! J/K.

Regards

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
 
cphbravo96

Am I the only one that's impressed that an assistant is a billionaire?!?! J/K.

Regards

lawlcats

 
StryfeDSP JimboUSC: WannaBIB:

Ya mean brah? = You know what I mean Bro?

I thought thats nahmean?

No it's noimsayin?

lol

"so i herd u liek mudkipz" - sum kid "I'd watergun the **** outta that." - Kassad
 

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