Patrick Lenihan’s Post

*You know who's a boss? Lou D'Ambrosio, that's who. *Confirmed: this is a blatant effort to get invited to the Apollo.

There are few things that make me roll my eyes as hard as when I see the word "slams" in a headline. Happy Tuesday!

Today is the last day to vote for PEI's 2023 global awards. No doubt in my mind the Goldman Sachs Growth Fund is the most diligent, hard working, and value-add Growth Equity investor around. Learn more, as they say.

I'm running the NYC Marathon this weekend to raise money for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Of course I'd love for you to donate. More importantly, if you're in New York: come out and give a cheer. Participate in the mass hysteria. New York is fifty thousand people all flinging themselves at the limits of what they can do, while hundreds of thousands more scream along. It is so weird. But something about the taut, tremulous wire of perseverance that runs through it all is so, so beautiful.

I'm linking back up with the Growth team at Goldman Sachs -- the best in the business, no knock on anyone else. This is going to be fun. Honored to get to work with Darren Cohen, John M Connolly, Lou D'Ambrosio, Sarah Shenton, Zachary Fields and others as an Operating Advisor, scaling revenue in Asset Management's Value Accelerator. Lots to do!

Ludicrous flow, kind words. Thank you Diana Bradley for the story.

Lol NYSE Grindr ♥️

Well, that was an absolutely awesome way to start. More to come. Onward! Grindr NYSE

I came out for the first time 20 years ago yesterday. Halloween 2002. It wasn't brave of me; I was immensely lucky to have all sorts of privileges, to have a family that loved me, and to go to a public high school that wasn't so homophobic that life was unworkable. And it was still ridiculously tough. Had I not been able to speak freely at school about sex, to read books about queer people, and to find little glimpses of myself out in the world in queer people I could admire, I am quite certain I wouldn't be around right now. It perplexes me why anyone would want to make anyone else's life harder. My hope is that the people who advocate for "don't say gay" laws and who push malignant anti-trans legislation and policy do so out of ignorance, that they simply do not understand the damage they're doing and the lives they're putting at risk. More deeply still, I hope that that can change. It'll only change with hard work. As someone to whom great opportunities have been given (as much as I have fought for them) I am happy to work myself to the bone on behalf of my community to earn from the world the credit LGBTQ people are due. I know my colleagues at Grindr feel the same. 20 years after first coming out, the world is clearly more full of visible LGBTQ people. Visibility is a powerful tool ... The Grindr team will see you soon down on Wall Street ... there's more coming out to do. 😉 https://lnkd.in/endG2WNu