New Boutique Bank in VA? Inkstone Capital?

anybody heard of inkstone capital? I hear this guy manages millions, or that's what he tells all the underage tail.

www.inkstonecapital.com

i might apply, it's even got research, PE, and pwm divisions...no CEO though just a managing director. any thoughts?

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Um...quite skeptical. Seems to me like a guy, a website, and a whole lot of nothing. If you can't smell the fish here, I have some oceanfront property in Arizona to sell you.

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i interviewed with this firm for an SA position... got it past the first round but got smoked in the second round. the guy is a total stud. he a wharton grad and is one of founding members of DLJ. he opted to go onto the buyside. by day he manages multimillion dollar portfolios (mainly p/e but some special situation/distressed), and by night he is batman.

 
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Should've waited and checked out the site, here are few nuggets of goodness:

  1. Check out the blog, there's a sweet entry called "Speculating on speculation"

  2. His July stock pick is Barack Obama

  3. "Please contact us at [email protected] for a detailed report of the portfolio in exel or pdf format. Thank you." You'd figure he'd at least spell Excel properly

  4. "We hope people will see Inkstone Capital as a firm with the knowledge and niche to succeed in the global environment." I'm pretty sure the word niche is not being used properly in this sentence.

  5. "Private Equity: We are more of venture capital" Which one is it?

This is priceless. Someone should e-mail and say they want to sell their $10MM Estonian wind farm and what the comps for that are. This kid's head will explode.

 

From the About Us section:

"We believe the beauty of life is about possibilities, and so we take chances to pursue these possibilities in life."

WOW

 

I think it's listed as Tian Zeng on facebook - He's at UVA like untitled. Site is amazing, I can't believe capitaliq can't pull it up in a company search, someone should really get on that.

 
tittinuts capital... or that's what he tells all the underage tail.

Who talks like that? "All the underage tail"? And what's up with your username? Are you a 16-year old wigger? You're a bigger tool than the guy at "inkstone."

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