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‘Rarely Have I Encountered Such Swagger, and I Tried to Respond in Kind’

That’s not even the best quote from Larry Summers’s description of his meeting with the Winkelvii twins. This is:


One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they’re looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an a**hole. This was the latter case.

Larry Summers calls Winklevoss twins ‘A**holes’ [Fortune]

Larry Summers calls Winklevoss twins ‘A**holes’ [Fortune]

‘Rarely Have I Encountered Such Swagger, and I Tried to Respond in Kind’