Remove Communication Remove Economics Remove Math Remove Startups
article thumbnail

Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. What, why do we think that is?

article thumbnail

Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

STEVEN KLINSKY, FOUNDER, CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEW MOUNTAIN CAPITAL: I come from the Detroit area of Michigan as a public school kid, went to University of Michigan and studied both economics and philosophy. There was XO Communication and McLeod. RITHOLTZ: So this is in pouring money into startups like venture does.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Filtering Down To The Most Impact-Weighted Work To Add Value

CFO News Room

I could go back and tell a story that I was a double major in economics and sociology, and financial planning was a perfect fit. It helped build my communication skills and my knowledge, because when you’re the one in the meeting saying the things, you’ve really got to own that information. Natalie: Right. Michael: Right?

Planning 130
article thumbnail

Tech Center: Microsoft In Montreal, Puerto Rico’s Entrepreneurism

PYMNTS

Microsoft said the startup’s vision to create literate computers that can think, reason and communicate like humans is in lockstep with its own vision. Technology is certainly one of the pillars of our economic development program,” Puerto Rico’s Secretary of Economic Development and Commerce Alberto Bacó Bagué told TechCrunch. “As

Math 44
article thumbnail

Transcript: Liz Hoffman

Barry Ritholtz

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Steve Case

Barry Ritholtz

? ?. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steve Case on AOL, Startups & Venture , is below. And if you are at all interested in technology, venture, startups, entrepreneurship, I suspect you will also. And in our early days, we really just tried to figure out like many startups get noticed to stay alive.