PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

When most players go wrong trying to build to scale, it isn’t that they get their five-year plan wrong. That, he noted, will be a very paced process — since the mistake startups often make in attempting to scale up is biting off more than they can chew operationally. Lessons like … #1: Anything can b e done — one step at a time.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I talked to Lenore Blum , she was one of the first professors of math at Berkeley, and she was talking about how difficult it was and how eventually her contract was not renewed, how she was almost kicked out of her next university, before she went on to a great career and success.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

And so the thing we were doing was sort of solving like often securities law or tax or accounting problems for people with like derivatives. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? And he said, what are you gonna do?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

KLINSKY: Why would I take more than the value of the accounts receivables. RITHOLTZ: So this is in pouring money into startups like venture does. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? It’s the big Canadian asset plans. KLINSKY: Right, right. KLINSKY: Yeah. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A launch date was planned. The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. Crowds had assembled for the launch. In concept.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

Was the plan always to cover finance? I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. We’re more startup than established entity, so not everybody has that ability. And that’s sort of the math. We’ll get into that in a minute.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Brad Gerstner is a founder and investor in technology startups. And he had a little startup RV company called Forest River. But one of the things I learned in that first startup, I had two guys on the two investors who were not traditional venture capitalists. What can I say? Once again? I have an extra special guest.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

And I’m like, dad, I found I need 25 grand to get going and my dad said send me a business plan. LINDZON: And … RITHOLTZ: I like your dad’s idea You should have created a business plan, just so you have it under your belt So now, I can’t imagine. LINDZON: No, so obviously, I did the business plan, I’m kidding.

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