PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

Prosper also spent $40 million to acquire medical loan provider American Healthcare Lending LLC and personal finance startup Billguard Inc. Changing market conditions (and some higher-than-expected default rates) have changed the math and softened investor interest some. And though Prosper was valued at $1.9 billion to $6.1

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. The next question that you alluded to, which is really interesting about revenue and profits, how solid in inflation hedge are equities? BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. Poverty, sustenance poverty is a roof over your head, food on your table, reasonable healthcare, it’s a sustenance, the ability to sustain yourself.

Economics 57

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

00:17:16 [Speaker Changed] And, and let’s be blunt and honest, Dave Portnoy is incredibly entertaining, even if that persona is an exaggeration of who he is, but no one wants him doing the payroll or the 00:17:30 [Speaker Changed] Healthcare. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math.

Entertainment 57

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

But as a private equity owner, again, first of all, you do invest heavily of your own money in the transactions, plus you have additional ownership through, you know, the carried interest, the profits interests. You got 60 percent of losses ahead of you. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

And, you know, therein began, I think the unraveling and, and a little bit of the, the loss of that, you know, cultural juice that had kind of historically made that firm special. 00:31:40 [Speaker Changed] So there’s the emotions and then there’s the math, right? I don’t wanna experience loss. Just extreme.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. BROWDER: And I’ll just point out that this was back in the days when $100 million profit is real money. How many do you have in your fleet? It is $2 billion on the ship. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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