A 2014 investor letter from his firm summed up those sentiments: "We think a lot of the data is cooked or misleading".
"Basically, everyone below Amazon is in some sense in play," said James W. Breyer, managing partner at Accel Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, summing up investor sentiment.
Stanley Collender, managing director of the federal budget consulting group at Fleishman-Hillard, the public relations firm, summed up the administration's fiscal philosophy this way, "Cut taxes because we have a surplus, and cut taxes because we have a deficit".
Dmitri Alperovitch, the co-founder and chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, a private security firm, summed all this up for me by saying, "The idea that any company in the world is going to be able to protect itself against an intelligence service or an armed military unit of another country is, quite frankly, ridiculous".
Michael Jacobs, principal and national clinical practice leader, of Buck Consulting, a global employee benefits and human resource consulting firm, sums up the conflict: "Of course I want the lowest possible price on the medications our clients are covering for their employees, but I also want innovation.
This metric is calculated by dividing the enterprise value of a firm (the sum of its market capitalization and total debt) by its EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
One brokerage firm executive summed up the uncertainty, "We are still finding our way here".
A sample exchange between John Cage, partner at Ally's firm Cage & Fish, sums it up: "Because what you do want isn't out there.
Jeff Bock, of research firm Exhibitor Relations, summed up the thoughts of many pundits: "Warcraft is a juggernaut in China, but was a non-event in North America.
Another point of contention will be the treatment of profits that partners earn when they sell stakes in their firms, a sum known as enterprise value.
