Raj Rajaratnam
Sri Lankan-American former hedge fund managerWikipedia
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Oct 18, 2026
Tom HardinGUEST
What's happening? A little bit.
Tom HardinGUEST
So just a few months after that meeting, I received a tip from another investor who I knew had worked for this billionaire, Raj Rajaratnam.
Tom HardinGUEST
I mentioned in the book, he's probably the most famous person later to be charged In these cases, she says, Hey, everybody's doing this, uh, gives me a tip on a private equity company.
Tom HardinGUEST
Who's gonna buy a public company in a few weeks.
AnitaHOST
In 2010, thirty-three men were rescued from a collapsed Chilean mine after being lifted one by one in capsules sixty-nine days after they were trapped twenty-three hundred feet or seven hundred meters underground.
AnitaHOST
In 2011, Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire at the center of one of the biggest insider trading ca- cases in U.S. history, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York to eleven years behind bars.
AnitaHOST
He was released early in 2019.
AnitaHOST
In 2016, Bob Dylan was named winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Martin ShkreliGUEST
I think this happened as well to Elizabeth Holmes.
Martin ShkreliGUEST
You know, uh, Raj Rajaratnam is another example of, you know, a hedge fund manager that was, was a decent investor.
Martin ShkreliGUEST
Uh, you know, it was much more that he, you know...
Martin ShkreliGUEST
I think you, you know, to keep it short, you have this self-conscious, you have to live up to something, and sometimes wanting to live up to that big thing can be, um, very detrimental, and just, and failing and admitting that you are not that great at that is not that bad.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Insider trading is, of course, illegal, and regulators are always on the lookout for it.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Back in 2009, there was a big scandal centered around Raj Rajaratnam and his fund Galleon Group, which implicated traders at other big Wall Street firms, too.
Patrick BoyleHOST
According to the writers, Gekko wasn't based on any single person but was instead inspired by a number of people like Carl Icahn, Ivan Boesky, and Michael Ovitz.
Patrick BoyleHOST
The famous Gekko quote, "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good," echoed a speech Ivan Boesky had given at Berkeley a few years earlier where he had said, "I think greed is healthy.