and in 1997, he started his own fund inside rothchild, and then , and what out happened afterwards isind of fascinating. carol: he does not like the word vulture investor. i have always called him a distressed investor. he goes after troubled industries, bankrupt companies, takes them over, sometimes people lose their jobs, right, as a result? a lot of times. max: i found a carol massar interview where he's like, i'm not a vulture. i don't pick flesh off of bones. he really doesn't like the phrase vulture, right? has he ever said that? i found five interviews where he said i'm not a vulture investor. carol: he is taking over businesses and helping to bring them to life at the same time, so you look at him from a lot of different angles. max: here are the two things that any reader should know about the theme of being a vulture. on the one hand, he was going into companies the whole plan , for how he became rich, and he became a billionaire because of his steel investments. he bought these really woeful steel companies, combined them, rolled them up, and sold them to an indian billiona