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Jacqueline Novogratz

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first: 2024-07-26
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“Something in him was prepared because he was like, well, if you got this job, you would be in 40 countries the next three years and you would be understanding the economic and political situation in each of those countries. And of course, as this kid that always dreamed of knowing the world, loving the world, I was like, oh God. So I said, could we start this interview over? And he let me literally leave the room. I knocked on the door. I introduced myself. I sat down. He was like, tell me, Jacqueline, why do you want to be a banker? And I said, ever since I was six years old, all I ever wanted to do was be a banker. Of course, there were interviews after that to make sure I had a brain, but I got the job”
2024-07-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #758: Jamie Foxx and Jacqueline Novogratz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, mostly I was a bartender. And in the summer, I work 100 hours a week as a bartender, which was actually quite something. When I graduated, I told my parents that I'd really never had a proper vacation and that I was going to take a year to just explore the world. Never really gone outside the United States or anything like that. And my parents being very wise said, we think that's fine, but at least go through the interview process. And so I agreed quite reluctantly. And I threw my resume without thinking into the boxes for foreign affairs econ majors, which were my majors. And Chase Manhattan Bank called and said, we'll take you in as an interview. And so I go into the interview and there's this cute guy sitting across the table from me. And he says, tell me, Jacqueline, why do you want to be a banker? Which was, of course, the only question I wasn't ready for. And so it's like.”
2024-07-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #758: Jamie Foxx and Jacqueline Novogratz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think I did always want to change the world from the time I was six, and I guess that was part of both the positive and the pressure. And so there was always that idea that I had. But to go through college, certainly as the first, we had to pay for school. And so I worked two, three jobs the entire time I was at the University of Virginia.”
2024-07-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #758: Jamie Foxx and Jacqueline Novogratz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Mythmakers. I remember when we were little Bob Mike and I, all we really wanted was Levi's jeans. There weren't a lot of things to differentiate us. So my mother made a deal with us and said, look, I'll buy you the dungarees, which is what they used to call jeans, from the post exchange, unless you can earn the difference for those Levis. But I have to tell you, I'm really disappointed in you guys. Why would you need brands? You're Novogratzes. We laugh now. We're like, what the hell was a Novogratz? But she had the sense that this was who we were. So two kind of a driven myth-making mother and three, this big extended immigrant Catholic family. And so this idea that to whom much is given much is expected was also reinforced. And so I guess in a funny way, Tim, we grew up in a tribe, but also allowed to be”
2024-07-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #758: Jamie Foxx and Jacqueline Novogratz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it was a funny combination of one constraint that when you have so many kids on a military income, you got to get entrepreneurial young, fast, and that was probably a very important piece. Number two, my mother is one of the great myth makers of all times.”
2024-07-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #758: Jamie Foxx and Jacqueline Novogratz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was raised in a four bedroom house with seven siblings, the seven of us, amazing parents. Dad was in the military. My mother was forced to be reckoned with. I would say it was a noisy, chaotic, loving house full of cowboys who were also expected to somehow be good.”
2024-07-26 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #758: Jamie Foxx and Jacqueline Novogratz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT