rant · moment 24 of 28
Jamie Dimon's Background and the Waspy Rich
from #270 - Havana Syndrome | The Tim Dillon Show · #270
3 min
Tim and Ben discuss Jamie Dimon's Greek immigrant family background, the name change from Papademetriou to Dimon, his education at Tufts and Harvard Business School, and riff on how the ultra-rich suppress emotion.
- Upper East Side restaurant scene: young moms with kids eating gelato, women splitting salads and drinking chardonnay before going home to loveless marriages.
- Jamie Dimon was eating outside in terrible horse stalls, the kind of place where New York restaurants put people now.
- Tim on how you become CEO of Chase: you don't get there by being affectionate.
- Dimon's parents were loaded, unlike Blank Check guy who came from the Jewish projects or Brooklyn.
- Tim expected more bodyguards around Dimon given kidnapping plots against people like him, but wasn't sure how many would recognize him anyway.
- Jamie Dimon was one of three sons of Greek immigrants and attended the Browning School.
- Dimon's paternal grandfather changed the family name from Papadametrio to Diamond to make it sound French, worked as a banker in Smyrna Greece.
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