Wall Street legend Morty Davis gets brutally honest — and it's not about deals.
Before the $3 billion raised, the 400+ companies funded, and the Harvard MBA — Morty Davis was a young man who couldn't shake a persistent sense of depression. In this clip, Morty opens up about discovering Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking and how one book rewired the way he approached life, business, and adversity. It's a rare moment of vulnerability from one of Wall Street's most storied dealmakers — and a reminder that the mindset behind capital markets success is rarely what ends up in the press release.
About Morty Davis:
J. Morton Davis is the owner and Chairman of D.H. Blair Investment Banking Corp., a full-service investment banking and venture capital firm established in 1904. Over his career, Morty has helped more than 400 start-up and early-stage companies raise over $3 billion in capital, funding Nobel Prize winners, pharmaceutical pioneers, medical device innovators, and telecom entrepreneurs — and helping launch The Hill, one of Washington's most prominent political media outlets. A magna cum laude graduate of Brooklyn College and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, Morty Davis is, by any measure, Wall Street personified.
About Joshua Wilson:
Joshua Wilson is the host of The Investor Relations Podcast and CEO & Executive Producer of Smooth Stone Capital. Holding FINRA Series 79 and 63 licenses and a Florida real estate broker license, Joshua has spent a decade conducting over 2,000 interviews with public company executives, IR professionals, SPAC sponsors, M&A advisors, and capital markets practitioners. His network spans four active podcasts covering the full spectrum of capital markets, from deal origination to investor communications to public company readiness.
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