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Byju's Raises $500M In Funding Round Led By Silver Lake

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Indian educational technology firm Byju's has gotten a leg up from a $500 million funding round led by private equity titan Silver Lake , Bloomberg reported. Byju's valuation is now at about $10.8 Byju's has seen considerable investment activity, including from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg's Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Naspers.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

I love finding these people who are just absolute rock stars within their space that most of the investing public probably is not familiar with, haven’t heard about them. Tremendous track record, unusual background comes from computer science and software and, and pivoted into quantitative investing. Really fascinating guy.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

  The transcript from this week’s MiB: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments , is below. Barry Ritholtz] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Graham Foster’s pm at Orbis Investment Management. They have a truly unique approach to investing. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

Barry Ritholtz

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. I thought this was an absolutely fascinating way to see the world of investment management. Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up.

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The Growing “Do Good” Economy

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Its founder walked away with a giant buyout package even as its valuation crashed. The continuation of technological process continues to complicate the world. That as time has passed, the implications of technology get more and more complex and nuanced, and every leader has to deal with that right now.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 17-18) 2022

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But in the world of financial advice, there so far has been little regulation on advisor titles ( unless someone tries to call themselves an “investment counselor”, which ironically is still regulated under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ). And while Buffett was naturally gifted in math, he was initially scared of public speaking.

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