Bessent: Druckenmiller Was My Mentor
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent talks about his career on “The Master Investor Podcast with Wilfred Frost.”
WILFRED FROST, HOST: Was the transition hard from unbelievably successful, wealthy investor, your own boss, to having a boss again? TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT BESSENT: Well, you’ve got to remember for most of my career, I worked with Stan Druckenmiller and he was really my mentor. And we have a great group with the cabinet. And I think that especially in stress times like this, people have really come together. I just came from the Situation Room, and we have a series of morning meetings. And everyone, I thought the cabinet was performing at a very high level. Everyone has stepped up that level unbelievably. So I would say, in a way, I was training for this job for a long time because before, when I went to the G7 or the G20 meetings, I know the central bankers. I knew the finance ministers. Before, I was someone who they were trying to placate as an investor. Now I’m speaking to them as a peer and a colleague.
