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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

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. And big consumer and healthcare.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

Barry Ritholtz

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. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant. Capital rules were changing. Risk appetite was changing.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

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? SEIDES: So it’s Hartford HealthCare. RITHOLTZ: You were crushing it.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

Barry Ritholtz

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 remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead? BERRUGA: Yeah.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

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? Healthcare, education, not hugely cyclical, not interest rate sensitive.

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Transcript: Savita Subramanian

Barry Ritholtz

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. And one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. And I think that’s wrong because valuation does matter.

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Transcript: Howard Lindzon

Barry Ritholtz

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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