PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Uber Eats, facing losses and stiffening competition from both Grubhub and DoorDash, is changing its leadership and reorienting its efforts around profitability. That will now be replaced by category-focused product teams — focusing on areas like apparel, entertainment, food and consumables. So what happens now?

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Bramasol

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The importance of these elements has been underscored consistently in our work on implementing DSE solutions across many different industries including media & entertainment , telecom , software & SaaS , semiconductors , transportation , medical devices , electronics manufacturing , oil & gas , and utilities.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Often business models are borne out, not just on a unit economics, but become profitable by dent of scale. When you have find opportunity, you figure out how to exploit it for all of its potential economic value. And by the way, in economic terms and unit economic terms, you can support. You look for opportunity.

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VCFO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

personal vehicles, entertainment, vacations labeled as business travel) that owners sometime charge to their companies. Is the product or service geographically constrained, subject to local economic trends? Another common area of adjustment is various personal expenses (e.g.,

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 23, 2023

We should all be asking the same question — shouldn’t we all be as protected from COVID-19 as the attendees at the World Economic Forum are?” • But we aren’t asking that question, are we? Tech: “The Company That Controls Dating” [ The Cut ].

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. And so that can cause the impulse of the economic news to be filtered into financial conditions much more, more quickly. Let, let’s talk a little bit about your background.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 30, 2024

And then fast forward to my second decade, when I started to move up to Viacom and expand beyond Nickelodeon, in those days, we moved to more of a platform where each of the brands certainly had separate leadership, but that leadership was really focused on content and marketing. They were, they were a platform.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Number one, and I think they both reflect strong leadership at the firms. Number one, you had, you know, somewhat of a groundswell from within the firm, certainly at leadership that said we need to figure out a way to do something. RITHOLTZ: What’s some of the economic sectors within that area? SHAW: Yeah. SHAW: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

RITHOLTZ: We’ll talk a little bit about leadership and crew development a little later. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. So let’s discuss leadership and what you do to develop crew members and to identify and foster other people’s leadership skills.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

I had an economics lesson, I had a life lesson, I had an epiphany, I had a race relations lesson, I had a self-esteem and confidence lesson. Being broke is economic, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind, a depressed condition of your spirit. It’s home economics class, doesn’t exist anymore. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. At the same time, we are going through tectonic changes in the world economic order.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2016

That’s never been a real problem since shareholders aren’t looking to be entertained when they read the annual missive from the CEOs whose firms they own a share of; they are looking to be informed. Investor letters are not generally highly renowned for their incredible readability.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

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.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

So he, he followed the polarization in the country around the vaccines rather than necessarily driving it leadership. Barry Ritholtz: 00:07:43 [Speaker Changed] Leadership. And you know, a bad diet tends to be associated with lower economic strata. I think hi, his failure of leadership was massive. Not great outcome.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

So you have almost a doubling of the interest coupon paid by some of these businesses against the backdrop of c ovid 19 inflation and some of the economic pressures that come with, with those factors. And L I B O R has gone from 25 basis points to now converted to S O F R at over 5%. It’s still in the double digits. Tell us about that.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 23, 2024

But because of his deep and broad knowledge of the technologies behind climate change, he said, this isn’t a green investment so much as a moneymaking economic investment. And I think the US government’s leadership in this, particularly on methane, is gonna start reverberating through the market in a really positive way.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware. And it had to do with the discipline of the models that he used and how he segmented economic liquidity, investor liquidity, and then technicals and and breath conditions and understood how they melded together. What was the original career plan?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

10 years ago you had the top economics, economists, investors in America writing a letter to the Fed in 2010 saying, “Hey, stop QE. So you did not have policy or political leadership that was very inspiring. What’s entertaining the family? So obvious, but I would argue 10 years ago it wasn’t so obvious.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

You raised another $11 billion in capital, despite the economic environment. KENCEL: So I was actually speaking at a conference, the Greenwich Economic Forum last week, where your folks interviewed me, actually. It’s ultimately about leadership, right? KENCEL: Well, look, it’s all about entertaining people.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

You’ve held leadership roles across just about every line of business in the company. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about your leadership experience. Let’s talk about some leadership lessons. JOHNSON: Absolutely. Couldn’t agree more. RITHOLTZ: Really quite fascinating. Your timing was impeccable.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But here’s a group who’s highly motivated, they’re doing all kinds of leadership things, and nobody is taking a profit. Then you get something that’s got tremendous capacity to manage a larger and larger organization which Vanguard had to become in order to get the economic power that it has today.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And I literally just started putting adjectives and nouns on piece of paper, trying to figure out like how do I describe the work that I think I should be doing, and that hopefully, people find at least entertaining, if not valuable? RITHOLTZ: So you would like to see leadership from the U.S. I wouldn’t mind us leading here.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

We’re going to wait, we’re going to see, and we want to be supportive of the markets and the economic system. And again, really kudos to Paul for his leadership in doing that. So as I said earlier, we really thought that there could be some economic struggles following ’87. We don’t want to participate.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

So I actually went and worked in economics, I was an econometrician. What kept you entertained during the pandemic? And similar to the reasons I like the Shackleford story, it’s a interesting examination of leadership in crisis. It’s just, it’s a great story in leadership. What, why do we think that is?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

I know you like to discuss there are different phases of the, of the, both the market and the economic cycle. I mean, we had a global pandemic, a complete shutdown of global economic activity. And to his credit, and this is a, a good display of leadership Yes. 00:52:12 [Speaker Changed] Exactly. I loved White Lotus.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I found the book to be really entertaining and, and amusing and a little bit horrifying. It really is just a, a, a very entertaining book and I thought this conversation was, was absolutely fascinating. 00:38:35 [Speaker Changed] So, so tell us a little bit about the leadership of Tether. But Zeke is a, a fascinating guy.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And again, it depends on whether you’re talking about from a political economic perspective, from a GDP perspective. And I’m going to have to retire this question one of these days, now that we’re mostly reopened, but during the lockdown, tell us what you were doing to stay entertained? KOENIGSBERGER: Exactly.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

So, so let’s talk a little bit about your, your background ba in economics from Dartmouth. The fundamental company is a good company and has been, it has all the characters who like market leadership, margins, stability, some tailwinds and a great management team, but it just had too much debt. It’s a pleasure to be here.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And so the idea is that, what I’ve heard is like, hey, we’re going into a recession or a weak economic period so therefore everybody’s going to go into work four and a half days a week because they want face time with their boss. What’s keeping you entertained? Does it become harder to get insurance?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. You serve as the National Leadership Council of Communities in Schools, and the Educational Foundation in New York. RIEDER: So I mean, I’m less involved than I was on the national leadership. RIEDER: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 18, 2023

And four nights a week, we were out to dinner, entertaining customers, getting to know them, talking about the markets, and that was an incredible education for me. I was like talking through with him how the fund economics worked and what the upside was. And so I spent a lot of time going out. WAGNER: Yeah, you know, it’s funny.

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