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. 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 In late 1996, they were bought by Yahoo!

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Brad Gerstner is a founder and investor in technology startups. And he had a little startup RV company called Forest River. But one of the things I learned in that first startup, I had two guys on the two investors who were not traditional venture capitalists. What can I say? Once again? I have an extra special guest.

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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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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It seems that whether you work in government, a not for profit, tech startup, corporation, or even your own business, the part of the economy that is claiming positive social impact is growing rapidly. Its founder walked away with a giant buyout package even as its valuation crashed. And I am a lover of math.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 21, 2025

But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. And then I was approached by Citigroup about being director of financial education for this startup called MiFi. You know, what would happen next?

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

And so I left a OL for a startup in music. 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. Now, you don’t mention in the book if you were incentivized with stock, but I assume you’re joining a startup.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

? ?. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steve Case on AOL, Startups & Venture , is below. And if you are at all interested in technology, venture, startups, entrepreneurship, I suspect you will also. And in our early days, we really just tried to figure out like many startups get noticed to stay alive.

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