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The Valley’s venture investors were typically Boston merchant princes, men such as Israel Thorndike, S. A. Eliot, Samuel Cabot, Francis Stanton, and Harrison Gray Otis. Edmund Dwight, a Morgan cousin on his mother’s side, wasn’t in the same financial stratum as a Cabot, but gained access through his work at the law firm of Fisher Ames, the old Mass

But families attempting to overcome the “Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations” proverb should define short-term as twenty years, or one generation; intermediate as fifty years, or two generations; and long-term as one hundred years, or three generations. This difference of view profoundly affects the nature of the assets and liabilitie

It took only a couple of weeks of working for Sam before Caroline Ellison called her mother and sobbed into the phone that she’d just made the biggest mistake of her life. She’d first met Sam at Jane Street, in the summer before her senior year at Stanford, after he’d been assigned to teach her class of interns how to trade. “I was kind of, like, t

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It must encourage the geographic diversification of human assets. The world is becoming smaller every day. Families must participate in all corners of the world if they are to meet the challenges of a global world.