Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers. KLINSKY: Well, that is — and it was kind of venture capital numbers because the dollars were so small. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: No, we’ve definitely always been disciplined on valuation, and we’ve let a number of things go. We went from having religions where, you know, everything was a spirit, a tree, a rock, everything had a spirit, and then we went from that to theistic religions where there was some different number of gods.

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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. Key brands, number one, Coca-Cola Bottling is the company that really helped to jumpstart the city.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like that solves like a number of issues. What’s keeping you entertained?

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Finance Math Banking 52

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This can emerge as procrastination, overanalysis, or becoming occupied with any number of tasks that they feel are necessary to complete first (such as ensuring every minute detail has been thoroughly examined and vetted) before taking any steps toward executing the actual idea being considered. Don’t anchor on that number.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

Number one, a school district is a business. And number two, and I think that they were like, I’m sure there’s a note coming after this with a congressional allocation, and it never came. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Economics 56

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 6, 2023

And they do that for 35 years tweaking numbers I go you won, you won the game. Number one, everybody has credit cards, everybody misunderstands how to use them, and there are actually some secret perks that people have no idea about. In fact, here’s the phone number you call, and you will get your $37 fee waived.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As a starting point, it’s important to recognize that while conversations in the financial services industry over the last decade have entertained the idea that technology (e.g., ” Or are you a little bit closer to me thinking that is just a ridonkulous number of people for my brain to keep track of? Carl: Well, yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. DAVIS: So when we think about how those teams are evaluated, it’s a three-year number. So how did you perform?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. ” 29, 87, 74, just pick any 50 plus percent number and certainly 2000 and ’08, ’09, a major index gets cut in half. So you’re talking about an average of a large number. Less, 20, 30%? And — RITHOLTZ: What?

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” I think your number at the time was somewhere like 15 great fit clients to take on every year. And it was just an unmanageably large number of clients. He did an immense number of sales, and had cultivated a huge number of relationships. But he was wonderfully successful in the insurance environment.

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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 was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. She has lived and invested through not just the great financial crisis, but the SNL crisis and a number of other fascinating experiences in real estate. If there was an error in a report or a number, I went ballistic.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. One, we also saw a record number of credit card openings in Q1 and Q2.

Investments 114

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

RITHOLTZ: There’s safety in numbers. RITHOLTZ: The whole concept of whisper numbers, which we still use the phrase, but it doesn’t really exist anymore. The numbers are correct. RITHOLTZ: All be fair, they’ve put up some pretty good numbers lately. That’s the right thing. MIELLE: Correct.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. .” RITHOLTZ: So literally number two at the firm? And so it’s one of these things that math works.

Math 56

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. These are big numbers.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. You’re actually crunching a lot of numbers. That OER number was calculable four months ago.

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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. So, so you choose a number of specific industries or did you choose them? RITHOLTZ: Wild number.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2017

Other options for live entertainment and other circus competitors had beaten them to that punch by devising experiences less dependent on animal acts to scintillate the crowds. So, let’s say, hypothetically, that 15 percent of Amazon’s $100 billion sales number is driven by the 50 percent of the units sold via marketplace sellers.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number. What’s kept you entertained these days? If it’s a cyclical low Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 20, 2023

That’s a shocking number. I think there’s a number we have in the book, maybe $70 million or something in fees to take care of. RITHOLTZ: Really, that’s a big number. It’s very hard to, you know, getting numbers on this stuff, they really don’t want to help. They knew the numbers.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2024

. ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio Barry Ritholtz : This weekend on the podcast, ed Hyman returns to talk about all things economic analysis, what’s going on in the world, how he’s built an incredible career, oh my God, 43 times number one ranked in the Institutional investor survey in economics.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

“FanDuel decided to merge with DraftKings last November, because we believed that this deal would have increased investment in growth and product development, thereby benefiting consumers and the greater sports entertainment industry.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

So, we entertain anything coming in that would be of value,” Holmes told Webster, noting that most other such conversations never got much past the “initial chat” because that bigger value wasn’t there. “For Not to mention the 2.4 But in the U.S., Webster noted, Alipay is known — if it is known at all — as a Chinese brand.

Math 57

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Really, the work he’s done on inequality came after the Nobel Prize based on a book him and his wife put out, and a number of papers. So when I was at this very fancy private school that I was at as a kid, I did math because it gave me a huge amount of free time to do the things I really cared about. Am I getting right?

Healthcare 56

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. So remember data and data infrastructure, that is the number one primitive to ai. So here’s the math, Barry.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? FOWLER: Yes, I was at LVMH for a number of years, mostly with Louis Vuitton for the first few years. The number one response every single time to this day is for Hodinkee to sell things because they trust us.

Retail 64

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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? I have lots of different ways I can get that number to go up. It’s still a fairly small number.

Finance 107

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

He was instrumental in getting a number of very positive policy actions passed over the past decade. I’ve interviewed a number of people from Revolution. The math never seems to work out. And that worked for a number of companies. So with no further ado, my conversation with Steve Case.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

Uh, Fred said to give me your number.” ” (LAUGHTER) And he goes, and then he goes like this and tell Fred not to give up my (EXPLETIVE) phone number anymore. LINDZON: Lesson number two. And they go, what’s street.com’s number. So this is the math that I applied. ” I do the pitch.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 4, 2022

I sent email to Marc Maron because he had the number one podcast. A good example of that is like you take something from a cognitive reflection testy or something — like — I’ll make it real simple so we don’t have to like do the weird math on this. It was recently number one in Vietnam. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

Entertainment 116

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 22, 2023

SUNSTEIN: Well, when you say directly, that’s true, except the number of meetings I had with President Reagan was zero. The number of mediated interactions I had with President Reagan was about five, and the amount of work that I did for the president was basically every day. That’s an insane number. SUNSTEIN: Yes.

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