Hedge fund bro gonna hedge fund bro
Posted on Twitter Tuesday -- during FT Alphaville’s Christmas party -- was a video from the back of a New York cab.
Sounds pretty boring, we hear you say. Unless, of course, it’s a seemingly pre-coital Travis Kalanick on a mad one again. (Those truly were the good times, eh?)
Well, not so fast. This time it’s another finance celebrity who’s featuring: Mike Platt, the billionaire founder of hedge fund turned private investment vehicle BlueCrest Capital Management.
Captured after an evening out with his girlfriend, the open-collared trader and Jersey resident describes himself in terms which we’d rather you just saw for yourself:
We’re pretty sure the queasiness Alphaville feels is from the second black velvet at our Christmas party, but after seeing this video, we’re not so sure anymore.