Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The advertising model, as we have learned is not aligned with customers’ interests, right? So along those lines, there are some venture firms that don’t really seem to care a lot about valuations and others seem to focus on a little bit. We’ve seen valuations come way down for public companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. We didn’t really have to worry about marketing or advertising, didn’t spend time on podcasts or TV.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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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. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? Where are we?

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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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