#629: Aryeh Bourkoff — Media's Hottest Dealmaker on How to Negotiate, Rejecting Constraints, Mastering the Calendar to Create More Time, and How to Play the Long Game

Brought to you by HEY premium email service, Theragun percussive muscle therapy devices, and LinkedIn Jobs recruitment platform with 800M+ users. Aryeh B. Bourkoff (@aryehbourkoff) is the Chairman and CEO of LionTree, an independent investment and merchant bank advising and investing in transformational CEOs and the companies they lead. Aryeh founded LionTree in 2012 during a time of unprecedented disruption, and since then, LionTree has supported an expanding number of industries as they capture opportunity in an evolving digital economy. Aryeh is also the founder of Kindred Media, a digital media and podcasting company powered by LionTree, and serves on the boards of Yahoo and Carnegie Hall. Before founding LionTree, Aryeh spent 13 years at UBS, closing his tenure as Vice Chairman and Head of Americas Investment Banking. Before UBS, Aryeh was a high yield research analyst and ranked as the #1 cable and satellite analyst by Institutional Investor for seven consecutive years. Aryeh is a graduate of the University of California at San Diego and resides in New York City with his family. Please enjoy! * This episode is brought to you by HEY! I was introduced to HEY by my friend Kevin Rose, who calls it “a beautiful rethinking of everything wrong with email.” HEY is a premium email service for people who are tired of having an inbox overflowing with things they don’t care about, and who value their privacy and online security. They offer a 14-day free trial if you want to get a taste of HEY. A full-year’s subscription to HEY is just $99. Plus, The Tim Ferriss Show listeners get an exclusive discount that has never been offered anywhere before: get $20 off your first year’s subscription when you sign up at Hey.com/Tim. * This episode is also brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. Whether you are looking to hire now for a critical role or thinking about needs that you may have in the future, LinkedIn Jobs can help. LinkedIn screens candidates for the hard and soft skil