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you wouldn't guess the amount of finances that this man can control. During the interview, Pollack talked about his career as a short seller and hedge fund manger, the charity groups he helps, his family, and why he's decided to return to short selling after a six-year hiatus. "Short selling is what I do and I need to get back to doing it," states Pollack. Both Yale and Harvard seem to have a penchant for turning out successful investors: Jim Chanos (widely credited with exposing Enron as a fraud, and who Pollack got to know back in the 1980s when they were both short First Executive Life), Zoe Cruz (a brilliant commodity trader who rose to the co-presidency of Morgan Stanley, a section-mate of Pollack's at HBS), Jamie Dinan (CEO of JP Morgan Chase, who Pollack used to play pick-up basketball with at HBS), Strauss Zelnick (media wunderkind and Chairman of ZelnickMedia and Take-Two Interactive, Pollack's roommate at Harvard), Scott Schoen and Scott Sperling (co-presidents of leveraged buyout giant THL, and friends of Pollack from Harvard), Steve Pagliuca and John Bekenstein (of Bain Capital, friends of Pollack from HBS and Yale respectively), Glenn Hutchins (of Silverlake Partners, also a Harvard classmate), to name just a few. Pollack, who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale and went on to get both an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, is no exception. After graduate school, Pollack went to Wall Street where he became an investment banker and later honed his skills as a hedge fund manager. Pollack was trained as a short seller by industry pioneers, the Feshbach Brothers and later went into business for himself. After leaving Feshbach in the early 1990s, Pollack built a highly successful family of hedge funds, the most well-known of which was his short fund, appropriately named Dancing Bear. But towards the end of 2001, Pollack started to a look how he could spend more time with his growing family and helping charities. "After the terrorist attack on 9/11, I was moved by what happened and I really wanted to help," said Pollack. For the months following the attack, the financial markets were in turmoil and Pollack began to feel the pull of loyalties between his investment business and the needs of his growing family. In November of that year, Pollack was at a family vacation with his expectant wife and three children. Sitting with his laptop on a hotel room watching the markets, he told his wife that he had to go back to the

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piece is an abstract triptych that I found while I was in Atlanta buying religious paintings The piece was called Guardian Angel and I love it My patrons fell in love with it as well They have asked me to track down the artist and see if he has anymore religious paintings available The only religious paintings that I actually do not buy are ones that reflect the image of Jesus on the cross I don’t have a problem with them some of them are extremely well done and would more than likely sell well but my investors made it very clear when they financed the gallery that I would not put that image into it PPPPP 683 Ajello Candles The motto of the Ajello Candle Company is “It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness” This candle making company has been in business since 1775 The business has been family owned for seven generations The candles from Ajello’s are well known for their beauty and quality While they make more candles now than in 1775 their dedication to quality and to customers has never changed The Ajello Candle Company was founded by Rafael Ajello an Italian painter He was also a beekeeper so he tried his hand at using bees wax to create candles He worked hard to create a formula that worked well The formula combined with his outstanding artistic ability lead to the birth of the Ajello Candle Company In 1785 the company earned the honor of creating all the candles for the Vatican He and his wife ran the business keeping their children involved in the processes from an early age As time went on their children and grandchildren kept the business running as well as passed the family business on to their children By 1862 the company had established itself as a leader among the candle making industry They had also added perfumes and many .

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