Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 17, 2025

Fees of 2% plus 20% of the profits are a huge drag on performance. The SVB loss served me right; it was a reminder of how quickly I get cocky and arrogant after a score. My advice was not based on fear of a bubble or the (over)valuation of Yahoo; rather, I suggested employing a regret minimization framework.2

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And I found that subsegment really interesting because we did studies on kind of decision making biases, human biases like loss aversion and other biases that impact otherwise what should be rational decisions and make them less than rational. And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. Absolutely.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. We built a company that was focused on valuation, initially, actually targeting corporate strategic planning departments.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

I got the sense that, so Churnin takes 51% for a fairly modest valuation, 10 or $15 million. That, that gives Barstool a half a billion dollar valuation. And they had a belief at the time of driving growth profitably whereby you could organically acquire customers. Was it a loss? And that was really the end of that.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. And then I was looking for something more applied.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2025

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. And I kept roughly half the profits and there was no training. Oh my God profit. Not, not for me, $500 trading profit. Not, not for me, $500 trading profit. So you need to have multiple strategies to develop persistent profitability. Hey, congratulations.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. The visibility on earnings they grew but they stayed profitable as, as they grew. So big loss. So I took that. That was real money. Real money.

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