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You Heard It Here First: Best Of 2018’s Monday Conversations

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When most players go wrong trying to build to scale, it isn’t that they get their five-year plan wrong. That, he noted, will be a very paced process — since the mistake startups often make in attempting to scale up is biting off more than they can chew operationally. Lessons like … #1: Anything can b e done — one step at a time.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

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. Absolutely.

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Transcript: Matt Levine

Barry Ritholtz

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. Like, like the, you know, like the accounting standards.