Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

You graduate Harvard in 1990, with an Economics and Computer Science degree, perfect for the explosion of the Internet; a PhD from MIT and Information Technology in ‘96. The advertising model, as we have learned is not aligned with customers’ interests, right? And I’ve been investing in a lot of computer companies over the years.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. What’s the valuation? So, it cost the firm $320,000, well worth every penny? How would you have done?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So you’ve been with BlackRock since the financial crisis. Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. RIEDER: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. And I do think besides just the advertising aspect, I think one huge benefit to our business is we hire a lot of PhDs, including professors. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. It can apply to earnings. It does go to our taste.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. We thought it was free advertising for their index, but I guess guess they thought that their index was pre advertising for our fund or something.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It was about $170 million valuation. I think, you know, what we’ve, what we’ve learned about Twitter was they may have had a lot of advertisers, but I’m not sure how well it was actually working for users. I like these big advertisers, but they don’t wanna be associated with that. You all have phones.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that. The math never seems to work out. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about the metrics of giving, go back 20, 30 years, and the question was sort of like advertising.

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