PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Interestingly, the overwhelming majority of these firms have focused on disrupting the way consumers go about their daily lives and pay for everything from transportation to clothes shopping to movie passes. VCs have been pushing money toward a number of peer-to-peer (P2P) companies with questionable economics.

B2B 40

B2B B2C Accounts Payable Economics 40

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2023

I am not much of a car person and view cars primarily as a mode of transportation. Another is that when valuing companies, I am, in addition to valuing a company to see if it is fairly priced, interested into the broader insights about business and valuation that emerge from the company. per share in 2022.

Valuation 80

Valuation Investments Manufacturing Marketing 80

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In sum, the overall grocery pie is growing slowly, and the slice of the pie that is profit for those in the grocery game is slim, effectively limiting the valuation stories (and values) for every player in that game.

Profit and Loss 102

Profit and Loss Valuation Advertising Investments 102

PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

Lyft is a self-described peer-to-peer marketplace focused on “revolutionizing transportation” and reducing traffic congestion in cities. For Uber, transportation is a platform feature that is central to its business, but is not its end game. Uber’s valuation is pegged at $100 billion. Once Upon a Platform.

Transportation 73

Transportation Healthcare Economics Leverage 73

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The Chinese government braced for additional economic turmoil, took steps to bolster its lagging economy and activated new safety measures as the coronavirus epidemic spread globally, causing the first illness-related death outside of China. In Beijing, many stores across multiple retail markets are closed. We can’t work and have no income.

Economics 58

Economics Transportation Valuation Marketing 58

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This is a condition that strikes matchmakers after they’ve invested billions into their platforms, gotten them to scale by making it attractive for all parties to do business on that platform and receive the benefits from that new business opportunity, and transformed the sectors in which they entered. The disease: Matchmaker model amnesia.

Transportation 76

Transportation Investments Technology Valuation 76

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 61

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 61

PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Banks have invested time and money into creating their own virtual assistants to give consumers access to their bank account information via their mobile phones. That firm, GSR, previously invested $160 million in tZERO tokens during its ICO in June. Comparisons to Uber and Lyft abound: a disruptive way to reimagine transportation.

Banking 44

Banking Transportation Investments Currencies 44

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Was impeccable, right?

Profit and Loss 57

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 57

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. What led you into that field of study in the world of investing? He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

Valuation 115

Valuation Education Finance Investments 115

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Revolution is the outgrowth of his family office that does everything from seed to venture, to growth investing. But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that. And being in the Washington DC area proved to be important.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 65

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Startups Investments Healthcare 65