PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

Jump ahead to spring, and the next big company in the retail space (specifically, the biggest company in eCommerce) to make an AI-related move this year was Amazon. What were (are) Amazon’s plans for the AI image recognition software? So, what’s Sony’s plan? “We Of course, it did not ; mind your own business.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Analysts expect the online retail giant to report a 25 percent increase in fourth-quarter sales to $44.7 Think of it as a subscription extensions of extension of the online retail giant’s popular STEM Toys & Games store, which launched in 2015. Amazon is expected to report its fourth-quarter 2016 earnings on Feb.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. I, I found this to be really an intriguing conversation with somebody who, whose investment charge is unconstrained. Two reasons.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Just recently, Jiobit closed a $3 million seed funding round with investors including Lior Ron, the cofounder of Otto (now owned by Uber); MATH Venture Partners; and Inflection Equity. Those are the handful of teams I invest in nowadays. To date, Jiobit has raised a total of $4.2 million in two rounds of funding.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

The construction and manufacturing sectors were the most bullish, as consumers bought new houses and invested in improving the ones in which they were living. Most businesses, SMBs included, plan for rainy days, and have access to capital of some kind to smooth over those lumpy cash flow crunches. Doing The Math.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

The news follows big next-day delivery announcements from both Walmart and Amazon — in a week where both retailers had a lot of news about repositioning themselves in the market and reporting some pretty major changes. retail sales. It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

Companies with an edge of data — including information, for instance, that can show how consumers behave in certain locations, shops and commerce situations — can provide that edge, which often leads to a sale in this fiercely competitive world of digital retail. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked. “If

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

Companies with an edge of data — including information, for instance, that can show how consumers behave in certain locations, shops and commerce situations — can provide that edge that often leads to a sale in this fiercely competitive world of digital retail. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked. “If

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. It was between corporate law and investment banking.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

“We love new technologies, particularly when they fit so naturally into household planning.”. and has plans to expand the service to its fourth and final location in the state, Northborough. The company has plans to open two new Massachusetts locations by 2018. In Other News….

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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. And so my plan was actually to quit and not do anything and figure out what my next step was.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cathy Marcus is co CEO and global COO of p GM Real Estate, a $208 billion investor in real estate, part of the giant real estate investment firm, PIM. There are few people in the world better situated to discuss commercial real estate investing from every perspective. I like the idea of kind of urban planning.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And so these were two stories, maybe three, before I’m 9-years-old of bad economics, bad culture, and a bad business plan. Different risk tolerance and different business plan. Because then I knew what the wholesale rate was and the retail rate. I went home, got my mother, I sold my mother on making a $40 investment.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Greg Davis, Chief Investment Officer at a little shop called the Vanguard Group, which manages $8 trillion. Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. He’s only responsible for $7.3 I think you will also.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast I have an extra special guest, Luis Berruga has a fascinating career as both a tech wizard and investment banker before becoming CEO of Global X ETFs. And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

The idea of going to a supermarket also has some educational value — it’s a “teaching moment,” Scherer says — to, say, weigh ingredients is an experience in math and science, after all. The boxes are also a way for consumers to try foods without investing too much in buying a product they may not like.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not exactly the sort of inspiring narrative that one might like to hear from a CFO – especially when framed in the context of five straight quarters of disappointing and precipitous declines and the retail giant’s worst performance in eight years. . First, overall, the government reported that retail sales were up – and by a lot.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He holds all sorts of fascinating titles in addition to chief investment officer for bonds. trillion in various investments. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. He helps to oversee $2.5 RITHOLTZ: Really?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

Was that where you plan to go? I wanted to see the world, and whether it was investment banking, or basket weaving really had absolutely no bearing on my decision. RITHOLTZ: You describe what we now call junk bonds, we used to call high yield, what we now call distressed investing, we used to call vulture investing.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A launch date was planned. It’s a storyline with some very strong parallels to the cryptocurrency stories being told and the investments that they now garner. These early advocates have stimulated a vast amount of investment into this vision; $1.7 Their beta version was a suit they were making just for him.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. And I was a math nerd as a kid. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. And the division that I was in was below plan. ’cause bad things can happen to undifferentiated retailers. Real money.

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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?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

Was the plan always to cover finance? At that point, I’d been covering, as you mentioned, investment banking, Goldman Sachs for a couple years. And so the key components of any investment are like thesis, expression, and timing, right? RITHOLTZ: Retail just is nothing at all. We’ll get into that in a minute.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2016

From a retail industry perspective, while the wedding of two middle-aged people is as blessed an event as any other, the specifics of such an occasion do not occur at a frequency that would justify a company building its business model around it. The Knot used math to determine its most recent average cost of a wedding in the U.S.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2024

And he had this game plan. How did that affect your plans going forward? Tell us a little bit about the plan for launching an independent economics research 00:09:15 [Speaker Changed] Shop. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. Don’t write it down, but they surveyed retailers.

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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. Since the merger was never finalized, FanDuel and DraftKings will continue to operate as separate firms.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Revolution is the outgrowth of his family office that does everything from seed to venture, to growth investing. But unfortunately, just as the product came to market, the whole Atari game market blew up, and retailers didn’t want any new products. And suddenly, things were looking pretty, pretty, pretty desperate.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So for a while, I ran Wells Fargo’s 401(k) business because they had acquired that as part of Wells Fargo Nikko Investment Advisors. Blake Grossman was the chief investment officer there. That’s the real success story, and that’s much harder than investing. RITHOLTZ: Interesting. RITHOLTZ: Right. NADIG: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

LINDZON: So first year at ’01, ‘02, you have Apple and they blew out the store model, the retail model, which no one thought. How does a kid from Arizona, from Phoenix, get interested in venture investing, not exactly known as a hotbed of early-stage tech companies. LINDZON: No, so obviously, I did the business plan, I’m kidding.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. We started on that plan in December of 16. Yeah, exactly.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

“ Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter’s Trump ban “ Don’t buy a new gasoline car unless you’re planning to get rid of it in just a few years, which is kind of dumb, because then you’re eating the depreciation. Amazon in retail… Especially when it’s consumer facing and depends on traffic.

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