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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

If you’re interested in venture capital, in technology, in how to think about early stage investing, well, strap yourself in, this is a great one. ALBERT WENGER, MANAGING DIRECTOR, UNION SQUARE VENTURES: Well, I fell in love with computers very early on when I was a young teenager. You have quite a fascinating history.

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Data Dive, Farewells Edition: Apple, Chase, SoFi, Uber

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But, as often happens in a week when a lot of high-profile new ideas take the stage, it becomes easy to miss the things that are taking their final bow and exiting, stage left. billion tagged for this year and significant focus on Chase mobile and digital efforts. In May, the company raised $500 million in venture funding.

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Have Consumers Fallen Out Of Love With Robots?

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That device is still in the working prototype phase and is forecast to have a six-figure price tag when it hits the market. The robots are small, but the funding raised was not – the little robotics firm brought in $200 million in venture capital from some very well-known Silicon Valley investors like Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

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Transcript: Benjamin Clymer & Jeffery Fowler, Hodinkee

Barry Ritholtz

CLYMER: He actually purchased it, he purchased it in the early 90s. So people that would — RITHOLTZ: So I’m guessing eBay was pretty big in the early days, right? That’s how it was like in the early 2010s. And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Howard Lindzon

Barry Ritholtz

He launches Wallstrip in the early 2000s and before you know it, he’s in the middle of a bidding war with a bunch of different people, theStreet.com and CBS wanting to buy it. He rolls that cash into his next venture, which becomes a wildly successful angel fund, which now is in its fourth edition. Obviously the weather.

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Transcript: Dave Nadig

Barry Ritholtz

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. And you know, they had this vision of understanding that ETFs, which at that point, were still largely institutional vehicles, early 2000s, right? It’s like the mutual fund business back in the 80s.

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Transcript: Stephen Suttmeier

Barry Ritholtz

You know, it was the early nineties and, you know, it was hard to find, you know, jobs. 00:26:19 [Speaker Changed] It, it’s, it’s usually it is aggressive shorts from leveraged funds on s and p futures. So I wanted to challenge myself, improve my communication skills, you know, through, through the writing process.