Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

There was XO Communication and McLeod. You executed a $4 billion IPO for your Avantor life sciences company, the largest healthcare-related IPO I think in history, is that true? So life science supplies, healthcare, IT, managing wind and solar farms, niche software, and consumer, different things like that. RITHOLTZ: I recall.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Healthcare, education, not hugely cyclical, not interest rate sensitive. RIEDER: It’s funny you said that because, listen, I think we’ve gotten to the place where there actually is too much communication. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? RITHOLTZ: A lot, right? It is too much. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

The new guidelines, according to a Trump administration official speaking anonymously, will aim to break the distribution bottleneck reportedly created by limiting early rounds of vaccine to healthcare workers and nursing home residents. We have about 35 percent uptake of the vaccine.’

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. And so, it wasn’t just a fishing boat, it was an oceangoing factory, very impressive. And asked them, how much does one of these things cost, and they said, $20 million new.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

Yeah, you have to, you know, the conceit of finance is that basically the math is all there is to it. So you mentioned half math, half Shakespeare. Let’s talk about the math side. Ivanka said, oh no, you don’t have to be able to do math to do real estate 00:20:13 [Speaker Changed] Or investing for that math.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

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. RITHOLTZ: The communication was bad also. And that’s sort of the math. He was right on the thesis. He found a place to express it efficiently. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Wild number.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

They kept the reputation intact by communicating with their investors. And then we brought on our third partner, Gary Bennett, who had sold his company to SalesForce and we were doing a lot of enterprise and healthcare. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. We went out, we got Shahir hired, you know, but then you’ve gotta go out and hire people in the healthcare space. She left there, she became a crisis communications expert.

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