Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 17, 2025

An instructive war story : During the mid-1990s, a grad school buddy took a senior job at a tech startup that came with lots of stock. These two possibilities a 10-fold increase versus a 90% drop are roughly symmetrical in terms of math (but probably not probabilities). In late 1996, they were bought by Yahoo!

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Jiobit, a technology startup based out of Chicago, makes something that seems like every parent, from those expecting to empty nesters, will want or wish they’d had. The startup has developed a location-tracking smart tag and accompanying mobile app that sends alerts to parents when their child has gone outside a preset range.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As while advisors certainly can leverage technology to create faster and more efficient back-office processes that help scale a growing practice, the key point is that new technology tools can also help advisors engage in better conversations through innovative presentation tools (e.g., Leverage the back office to the sky. Carl: Yeah.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

If a business doesn’t have the robustness in terms of data sets, the data scientists needed to analyze that data or even the technology infrastructure to run analytics properly and perform real-time decisioning in house, then they may be better off leveraging the scale of a platform that does. The “Buy Vs. Build” Decision.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math. delivery startup that raised $575 million in funding. This natural progression of integrating an acquisition allows us to fully leverage Walmart’s assets for Jet, and leverage Jet’s talent for Walmart,” Lore stated.

Retail 40

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. For various reasons.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. From that experience, I realized that I really loved startups, but then I was never going to be good operator, but I thought I could maybe be a decent investor. Why is that?

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