AlphaSights Lore
CP Maestros
Elliott Trivia
Back to school
100

AlphaSights HK's first office

What is St. John's Building?

100

The written confirmation required to pass a piece of written work to a client outside of Messenger

What is the document declaration (doc dec)?

100

Elliott's brother

Who is Ash?

100

The offense of willfully telling an untruth under oath in a court of law?

What is perjury?

200

The previous head of Asia before Chris Wrobel

Who is Charlie Sutherland?

200

The project type where, under certain conditions, private equity clients would be able to speak to current competitors of their portfolio companies.

What is sell-side/vendor due diligence?

200

This is where Elliott went to primary school

What is Bradbury School?

200

The two legal components of a crime

What is actus reus and mens rea?

300

The team that originally handled all expert relation requests, including 1099s?

Who is CP?

300

This was originally used as an exceptional process for third parties to join interactions without agreeing to Third Party Terms.

What is an adherence letter?

300

Elliott's former place of employment before AlphaSights, located in Admiralty

What is Ozone Fitness?

300

The registered property right that allows someone to use another person’s land for a specific purpose, such as access via a path.

What is an easement?

400

The meaning and significance of "Alpha" in AlphaSights

What is the economic concept for returns above a benchmark?

400

The four requirements for business development projects, allowing clients to speak to experts about their current employers

What are confirmation to build business relationships, written consent to reveal client identity, permission to state on vetting calls that this is for a business development opportunity, and sourcing only executive-level experts?

400

This was Elliott's cat's name before she was adopted.

What is 𧌇䖢 (wu4 dip6)?

400

The five components of a contract

What are offer, acceptance, consideration, capacity and legality?

500

Max Cartellieri's first company that was sold to Microsoft in 2008 before founding AlphaSights' alongside Andrew Heath

What is Ciao! ?

500

The auto-expander shortcut to remind people about the original CP principle 1

What is c1?

500

Elliott used this guitar during the AlphaSights Christmas party of 2023, and during the most recent summer party.

What is Lola?

500

When an employer dismisses an employee in breach of the employment contract, most commonly by failing to give contractual or statutory notice, unless summary dismissal is justified.

What is wrongful/unlawful dismissal?