Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. And ev all the sort of compliance, client service, legal, kind of, everything was done sort of on the side by investment people. So I was at Harvard.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And from a public market, that sounds like it’s a compliance and conflict nightmare. 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. What’s been keeping you entertained? I didn’t know what any of these terms meant.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say. 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? It’s just entertainment. What’s keeping you entertained during lockdown?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I think I mentioned earlier, I have like a four-and-a-half-year-old that keeps me really entertain.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. Tell us a little bit about what you do on Twitter and how was it getting that through legal and compliance? How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? RIEDER: Thanks.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. RITHOLTZ: He was the first (inaudible) in round B at the higher valuation. Is it about the valuation? Back then I was Wallstrip was like a 400K valuation. RITHOLTZ: Valuation didn’t make much of a difference.

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