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26 Photos Of The World's Biggest Hedge Funders And Bankers From Their High School Yearbooks

Jul 26, 2021, 12:44 IST

Warren Buffett said he wanted to be a 'stock broker' in the 1947 Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook.

Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein was the valedictorian of Thomas Jefferson High School in 1971. He was a city champion in the 400 meter freestyle. We think we've identified a young Blankfein in his swim trunks below.

Here's Blankfein's senior portrait. He ended up going to Harvard, not Columbia.

Sallie Krawcheck, the CEO of 85 Broads, was homecoming queen at the Porter-Gaud School.

Ex-Barclays CEO Bob Diamond was on the varsity baseball team at Concord-Carlisle High School in Massachusetts.

That's a young William Ackman at Horace Greeley High School. He quotes Thomas Jefferson, 'Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.' He also has the following quote, 'A closed mouth gathers no foot.'

Ackman was in the National Honor Society.

He was also on his high school's tennis team. He was one of the team's top ranked players.

He was also listed in the yearbook as a member of the math team. (We can't tell which one Ackman is in the picture, though)

His classmates voted him the 'most verbose.' They also said that they'd like to see him in a Grecian Formula commercial (that's a five-minute hair dye product for men that replaces gray with natural looking color).

That's Ackman in third grade at Douglas G. Grafflin Elementary School in Chappaqua, New York.

Here's Daniel Loeb of Third Point in his 1979 senior portrait for Palisades High School. We couldn't find any other photos of Loeb in the yearbook. We were hoping he was on a sports team or something since he's so athletic.

We immediately recognized David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital in his Nicolet High School yearbook from 1987.

Einhorn was also a member of his high school's math team.

Einhorn won first place in a State Economics Essay Contest, too.

That's hedge fund hot-shot Mick McGuire, who now runs Marcato Capital, in musical theater from the 1993 yearbook for Hickman High in Columbia, Missouri.

David Tepper in the 1975 Peabody High School yearbook. He was a Junior in this picture.

Tepper was a Thespian in high school. He won the 'best actor' award for his school's production of 'Bye, Bye Birdie.'

Tepper was a member of the Slavic club, the bicycling club and the bowling club.

Famed short-seller Jim Chanos at Wylie E. Groves High School in Beverly Hills, MI.

That's Whitney Tilson of Kase Capital in the 1985 Northfield Mt. Hermon School yearbook. He said, 'The key to happiness is understanding how many people there are that are less fortunate than yourself.'

Here's Maverick Capital's Lee Ainslie from the Episcopal High School's 1981 yearbook.

Ainslie played on the football team. He was on J.V. as an underclassman.

Citadel's Ken Griffin in the 1985 Boca Raton High School yearbook.

That's legendary hedge fund manager Stan Druckenmiller with the Collegiate School's J.V. basketball team in 1968. This is from his freshman year.

Druckenmiller was on the honor roll, too.

Now let's see what Stan Druckenmiller is telling young folks these days...

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