Matthew C Klein, Columnist

Six Other Jerks Whose Stocks Julian Robertson Wouldn't Buy

Hedge fund wizard Julian Robertson has sold his Apple shares because Steve Jobs was mean. Here are some other companies Robertson would stay away from.

October 7, 2013 at 6:24 PM EDT

By Matthew C Klein

Matthew C. Klein writes for Bloomberg View about the economy and financial markets. He previously wrote for the Economist magazine and its economics blog, Free Exchange. Before that, Klein was a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he spent more than two years studying the history of the Federal Reserve and the intellectual history of monetary economics for an upcoming book by Sebastian Mallaby. He also worked at Bridgewater Associates, where he studied the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and advised institutional investors on asset-liability management. Klein has a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University. Originally from Chicago, he lives in New York.

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Julian Robertson, the hedge fund billionaire, told CNBC that he sold all of his Apple holdings after discovering that Steve Jobs was a "really awful" person through Walter Isaacson's biography. According to Robertson, this is because mean people can't build enduringly successful companies. Here are some other business founders whose companies Robertson probably wouldn't want to own:

1. Henry Clay Frick, United States Steel Corp.

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