PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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 Existing investors Tiger Global Management , General Atlantic and Owl Ventures also participated, Bloomberg reported.

Education 53

Education Math Valuation Investments 53

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Let, 00:04:08 [Speaker Changed] Let’s lead up to that transition software engineer at IBM, then you get your PhD, then research at Siemens, which seems to be more of a technological position than a finance position. What was your focus within tech? Finance was the natural fit for GMO. So I was at Harvard. 00:18:41 [Speaker Changed] Yep.

Valuation 52

Valuation Investments Finance Math 52

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But there’s always gotta be some element of the valuation really being compelling. But even in the book I wrote in 2014, you could see that the focus on competitive advantage can never be absolute, you always have to take valuation into consideration. But maybe second to valuation as a primary consideration.

Investments 57

Investments Valuation Concentration Marketing 57

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Brad Gerstner is a founder and investor in technology startups. And I said, Hey, how about if I build your technology practice, I’ll run a public sleeve and I’ll also run a venture sleeve in technology. There’s never been a technology in the history of technology. What can I say? Once again?

Investments 98

Investments Marketing Startups Accounting 98

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. which was our Global X Lithium and Battery Technology. The technology around making these nuclear plants a lot safer than maybe was the case in the past. BERRUGA: You know, great question. RITHOLTZ: LIT, L-I-T.

Investments 62

Investments Marketing Numbers Risk Management 62

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

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.

Valuation 120

Valuation Investments Marketing Technology 120

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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.

Nonprofit 130

Nonprofit Math Economics Valuation 130

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.

Concentration 67

Concentration Marketing Valuation Investments 67

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

He has a very interesting approach to thinking about market valuations and strategies and when to deploy capital, when to go with the crowd, when to lean against the crowd, and has amassed and excellent track record. Second part of our framework is valuation fundamental work. Well, that means valuations are probably too high.

Valuation 62

Valuation Investments Economics Marketing 62

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant. We’ve seen a couple of these events now.

Investments 117

Investments Banking Numbers Marketing 117

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

In 2021, elevated equity valuations and relatively low bond yields led the researchers to suggest 3.3% And while Buffett was naturally gifted in math, he was initially scared of public speaking. He also dug deep into a particular area of business—insurance—to try to gain an information edge on other investors.

Planning 130

Planning Education Investments Benchmarking 130

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And so, we pivoted to more of a service team.

Restructuring 130

Restructuring Planning Marketing Accounting 130

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : Erika Ayers Badan : So you end up going from ad agencies to technology, you’re at Microsoft, you’re at a OL, you’re at Yahoo. So I got my first taste of using technology and content and a user interface to deliver something to a consumer and also to pay, pay off a brand marketing message.

Entertainment 57

Entertainment Investments Math Advertising 57

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. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Numbers Math 52

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

And if you are at all interested in technology, venture, startups, entrepreneurship, I suspect you will also. But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that. The math never seems to work out. ” What is that like?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 67

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Startups Investments Healthcare 67

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.

Numbers 57

Numbers Investments Marketing Leverage 57

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. All the bots and automation mean that active managers who are trying to do that have been out competed by Renaissance Technology or Deisha or whoever. 00:44:11 [Speaker Changed] Kathy would may have her own valuation, so, but I can’t replicate it myself.

Benchmarking 104

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 104

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

technology, that was something to ride for a while. Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. The layoffs are happening in finance technology, the higher income jobs. I mean, we have such a technology innovation, adaptive human.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Marketing Investments Education 57

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So let’s, let’s talk a little bit about some data and technology you use. And we’ve automated the, the appraisal process for valuation, both intrinsic value, meaning like, where would we pay it, where would we buy it, and where is the fair market price that asset from that level, from price and from consumer behavior now.

Profit and Loss 57

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 57

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. They were both steeped in technology. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. And one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. What was the career plan?

Finance 57

Finance Marketing Numbers Investments 57

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. RITHOLTZ: He was the first (inaudible) in round B at the higher valuation. Is it about the valuation? Back then I was Wallstrip was like a 400K valuation. RITHOLTZ: Valuation didn’t make much of a difference.

Leverage 113

Leverage Investments Valuation Marketing 113

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

Math 57

Math Marketing Treasury Valuation 57

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

RITHOLTZ: Modern technology. RITHOLTZ: So here’s the question about 2020 and we could talk a little bit about the pandemic, when you have an event from outside the market, sort of feels less like the dot-coms and the valuation issue, and more like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, it’s totally outside of the system.

Investments 57

Investments Marketing Numbers Finance 57

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 7, 2025

And Stanford had that rag magic between entrepreneurship and technology and, and the nexus of, of starting to grow things, which is what I wanted to learn most. It’s such a special place and such a special bastion and ecosystem of entrepreneurship and, and technology and growth and ideas. Taiwan semiconductor, yes.

Valuation 52

Valuation Investments Marketing Math 52

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations. You learn the technology. It’s just not smart on a math basis to do that. And I just caught the bug. It’s a really broad field.

Leverage 57

Leverage Investments Marketing Math 57