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Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts

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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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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

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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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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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 billion has been invested into bitcoin/crypto-related ventures over the last eight years.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

Barry Ritholtz

At that point, I’d been covering, as you mentioned, investment banking, Goldman Sachs for a couple years. HOFFMAN: Yeah, so Bill, bit of a germaphobe, but he, you know, in mid-February, he has been reading, he’s a voracious consumer of, everything’s kind of a funnel to him and internalizes it in these investment theses.