"I was told about the Goldman Sachs connection some time ago."

I spoke to NP over a year ago after he literally just walked in the door from a meeting with GS, and this was long before RP had arrived on the scene (and, yes, I was under an NDA at the time, and now that it's public information, I can acknowledge this). NP deserves much more credit than what others are giving him simply because they're uninformed and assume the worse, especially Sea-of-Fud.