Aryeh Bourkoff — Media’s Hottest Dealmaker on How to Negotiate, Rejecting Constraints, Mastering the Calendar to Create More Time, and How to Play the Long Game | Brought to you by HEY premium email service http://hey.com/tim, Theragun percussive muscle therapy devices http://therabody.com/tim, and LinkedIn Jobs recruitment platform with 800M+ users http://linkedin.com/tim.

Resources from the episode: https://tim.blog/2022/10/19/aryeh-bourkoff/

“What is your edge?”
— Aryeh Bourkoff

Aryeh B. Bourkoff (@aryehbourkoff) is the Chairman and CEO of LionTree, an independent investment and merchant bank advising and investing in transformational CEOs and the companies they lead. Aryeh founded LionTree in 2012 during a time of unprecedented disruption and since then, LionTree has supported an expanding number of industries as they capture opportunity in an evolving digital economy.

Aryeh is also the founder of Kindred Media, a digital media and podcasting company powered by LionTree, and serves on the boards of Yahoo and Carnegie Hall. Before founding LionTree, Aryeh spent 13 years at UBS, closing his tenure as Vice Chairman and Head of Americas Investment Banking. Before UBS, Aryeh was a high yield research analyst and ranked as the #1 cable and satellite analyst by Institutional Investor for seven consecutive years.

Aryeh is a graduate of the University of California at San Diego and resides in New York City with his family.

Please enjoy!

00:00 Start
01:35 What makes a good research analyst?
08:58 Lessons learned from Alan Ginsberg.
12:32 Why did Aryeh choose to move across the country for a career in finance?
16:26 Professional job-seeking, doorknob negotiation, and toe-stepping.
21:14 Tying together the disparate and thinking outside convention.
31:45 Coping with overflow when time is short.
48:59 “What is your edge?”
56:00 A deck of cards and Joe Ianniello.
01:02:56 Advice for sharpening negotiation skills.
01:12:12 Recommended reading.
01:20:46 Thoughts on the future of audio/streaming/podcasting.
01:29:01 Building and maintaining community trust.
01:32:14 Goalkeeping.
01:35:47 Mach2.
01:38:09 The write time.
01:39:18 Parting thoughts.

About Tim Ferriss:
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 800 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.

Connect with Tim Ferriss:
Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/
Visit the Tim Ferriss PODCAST: https://tim.blog/podcast/
Visit the Tim Ferriss BLOG: https://tim.blog/
Follow Tim Ferriss on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/tferriss/
Follow Tim Ferriss on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/
Like Tim Ferriss on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/