I had at Goldman,” Collins said to me. “When you are a manager for thirty-six billion dollars in investments, you’re basically treated like someone who is personally worth thirty-six billion dollars. I could get a meeting with anyone I wanted. I could literally just pick up the phone and call the CEO of Coca-Cola, Cisco, or whichever company I wanted and they would take my call.” Collins had a tremendous platform that was about to grow even larger with the prospect of making partner at Goldman on the horizon, a position that would have netted
