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Uber Of X: Bannerman, Uber of Security Guards

PYMNTS

What we’ve done is used technology to streamline communication. Any startup bumps or battle wounds you can share? So I would say we’ve had many more challenges than your typical Silicon Valley startup. We’ve built an amazing team, and we try to solve issues through math or engineering. That’s really interesting.

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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. We need writers.

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The Big Jump: Pandemics And The Connected Economy’s Bigger, Faster Future

PYMNTS

But to understand how that thinking and those behaviors will influence the direction of the connected economy over the next decade, we need to start with a little math. And what’s true for startups is true for markets overall. Inflection Points And Jump Discontinuities . Take this graph of a two-dimensional function.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

There was XO Communication and McLeod. RITHOLTZ: So this is in pouring money into startups like venture does. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? And then lo and behold, for some reason, the equipment didn’t work for the new entrants — RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: I recall.

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Is Advisor Technology Making Planning Faster… Or Better?

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” Everyone starts doing the math of what their typical clients pay multiply by 300 clients was like, “This is mind-blowing profitability, effectiveness of the firm. Every cute little toy startup that comes around with the goal…that has the goal of removing the most expensive part of the equation, the human, right?

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

CFO News Room

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. Particularly, 10 years ago, this is a new startup or just in the very early days of “robo-advisors.” And that really helped build my confidence.

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Fee Schedule Complexity & The Fear Of Missing Opportunities

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In our 98th episode of Kitces & Carl, Michael Kitces and client communication expert Carl Richards discuss how a scarcity perspective can result in a firm’s loss of focus by trying to accommodate any and all clients regardless of their needs. And we see this fee schedule is just one entry point to this discussion.

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