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Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts

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The moves comes as the firm is working to account for declining loan volumes. Prosper also spent $40 million to acquire medical loan provider American Healthcare Lending LLC and personal finance startup Billguard Inc. billion in it last fundraising round last year, as of yet, the firm has not actually been profitable.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

But as a private equity owner, again, first of all, you do invest heavily of your own money in the transactions, plus you have additional ownership through, you know, the carried interest, the profits interests. You got 60 percent of losses ahead of you. KLINSKY: Why would I take more than the value of the accounts receivables.

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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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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. They buy tokens at a discount and resell them for big profits almost immediately.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

Barry Ritholtz

Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit. 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.