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Fahma!

Director of Finance and Corporate Development: 2020 - Present Manager of FP&A and Corporate Development: 2019 - 2020 Corporate Finance, Strategy and Development: 2011 - 2019 "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
 

I was the lead singer for Alice in Chains, one of the core groups that defined Seattle Grunge in the early 90's.

Also, I died in 2002. Don't do heroin, kids.

"Son, life is hard. But it's harder if you're stupid." - my dad
 

I aspire to get promotes by being a sponsor. This is my goal in life.

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” - Nassim Taleb
 

The Departed: "Unbelievable, who put the fucking cameras in this place?"

"Oh, who the fuck are you?"

"I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy."

Created a 1-step skincare solution for men. Purchase + reviews appreciated: www.w34th.com
 

Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae - a family of germs that are difficult to treat because they have high levels of resistance to antibiotics. E. coli is an example.

Healthy people usually do not get CRE infections – they usually happen to patients in hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare settings. Patients whose care requires devices like ventilators (breathing machines), urinary (bladder) catheters, or intravenous (vein) catheters, and patients who are taking long courses of certain antibiotics are most at risk for CRE infections. Some CRE bacteria have become resistant to most available antibiotics. Infections with these germs are very difficult to treat, and can be deadly—one report cites they can contribute to death in up to 50% of patients who become infected.

Commercial Real Estate Developer
 

Man, and all this time I thought it was short for Commission de Regulation de l'Energie!

Learn something new every day, I guess.

"Son, life is hard. But it's harder if you're stupid." - my dad
 

Had made mine when I had just started working in the industry and am a huge fan of Christopher Nolan's dark night trilogy. So... Patrick Bateman Begins.

It ain't as funny once you explain it.

Move along, nothing to see here.
 

It's relevant to me because I've been learning how to read since I was born. Still haven't quite gotten the hang of it yet.

It's relevant to you because you really ought to read more.

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there" - Will Rogers
 
"Acquisition Indigestion" It's a shame when an acquirer doesn't have the necessary infrastructure to successfully absorb and manage their acquiree

cough Coty cough

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
 

mine is basically the result of a naive 19 year old college student thinking that deal flow was tight.

6 years later, would probably change it to FeedMeaHealthyWorkLifeBalanceandBetterMentalHealth if i could.

"My name's Ralph Cox, and I'm from where ever's not gonna get me hit"
 

During my online poker heyday, I enjoyed reading Dan Brown book's and also won multiple FTOPs tournaments with the name, so I figured I would stick with it.

 

Fun fact: Even though Napoleon Complex is associated with insecurity about one's height, he was not short. He was 5'7'' or 174 cm.

made new unrelated account - dont reply or message as i never use it. 
 

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Don't beat yourself up on this, Eric. Some people like taking the long way home. Who the fuck knows?
 

I represent the senior equity interest in a special purpose vehicle created for a limited partnership incorporated in the Cayman Islands. My sole general partner was a Houston, TX-based natural gas company which is no longer in operation. All my interest and assets are currently held under receivership by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewco
 

Mine is a prophesy that I like from 700 BC.

I have it inked on my arm in the original Hebrew script.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
"Colonel Sanders" I like Chick-fil-A

so does she

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

People think I'm named Jake Paul after the social media/youtuber douche.

I actually take after Jacob "Jake" Paul, an advisor to the first LBO in history, that he pretty much spearheaded and figured out (advised McLean Industries in the 50s). Kohlberg and Kravis took after Paul years after, and most people here know how that went...

He doesn't get enough love as an innovator/pioneer here. I would've never heard of him without some obscure literature a professor mentioned my sophomore year of college.

I guess his approach was pretty rudimentary and improvisational, but still he made a huge mark on the game. My picture and signature are from a movie.

Don't beat yourself up on this, Eric. Some people like taking the long way home. Who the fuck knows?
 
"famejranc" I'll start. Mine is more or less James Franco, but backwards. Woah, genius. I know. It took me a while to come up with this one.

It doesn't even seem close.

James Franco backwards is Ocnarf Semaj?

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Cards fan stuck in Boston

Director of Finance and Corporate Development: 2020 - Present Manager of FP&A and Corporate Development: 2019 - 2020 Corporate Finance, Strategy and Development: 2011 - 2019 "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
 

Me and a friend started trading crypto currencies a while back, was a lot of fun with the low barriers to entry and the high volatility ( I ended up breaking even after the meltdown in 2018 btw, learned a few lessons).

Anyway, we ironically (with a hint of unironic egoism) decided our enterprise needed a nickname that sounded finance-esque. We tried a few "hedge fun name generators" and the results were not bad, just cookie cutter. After some though I came up with Chrysos Clan Capital. Chrysos = Gold in Greek, it sounds cool, gold obviously as the symbol of money, wealth, prosperity. Clan = As in blood relation, both our families hail from the same part of the world and are part of the same clan. Barbaric, I know. "Capital" just topped off the name.

So here were are. I joined the forum, didn't want to use my name, thought the name I came up with was good, so I used it.

 

It's actually a really stupid username. When I was a kid I liked a game called xblaster for a while, so that was my username back then for a lot of sites. The '2000' is based on nothing special, just that at one of the sites the name 'xblaster' was already in use and 2000 was just something that came up. I didn't have inspiration for a better username, so I just that about this one.

 

From Crooked Hillary to Rocket Man or Sloppy Steve, the POTUS never fails to deliver a quality nickname, which as we know, is just about the only meaningful content to come out of the White House thus far. I chose to dedicate my username to that milestone as a simple reminder that this is, in fact, reality - Donald Trump is our President. It’s remarkable, fascinating, and terrifying at the same time. Love him or hate him, we, the people, willingly and voluntarily put him in this seat. He’s OUR President. He’s our Tariff Man.

 

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
 

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Interested in health tech, consulting, and entrepreneurship.
 

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