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Sramana Mitra: How did you steer your career from that point on?

Todd Schwartz: I went through the crisis of 2008. That’s when I learned a lion’s share of what I know today. I learned about investing. I learned about allocating capital. I learned what not to do. I learned it not from having success. We got ourselves in a little bit of a pickle. It was a very tough situation. Unwinding a lot of that was painful.

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