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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · 2026-11-11 · 35 min · 5,063 words

Mike Milken: Access to Capital, the American Dream, and Why Risk Is Misunderstood

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I asked him, did they go into finance to change the world? And if this was the Nineteen Seventies, I would tell you that. One and four. would have told me they went into finance to change the world. When I speak to the incoming classes at various financial institutions, Maybe one percent.

go into finance to change the world. Hi everybody, I'm Nikola Tanyan, the CEO of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund. And today my guest Changed how the world raises money. Mike Milkin built a high yield bond market, always from nothing.

Seeing value where other people saw only risk. And today whole industries exist because of it. Table. Mobile. Media.

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