PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2018

Apart from the art and the counter-cultural campout atmosphere on offer, Burning Man is also internationally regarded as an excellent place to do some networking with Silicon Valley’s most elite – and to take a lot of hallucinogenic drugs. In An Extremely Expensive Environment. Burning is an expensive pleasure. Who’s right?

Economics 40

Economics Transportation Communication Sales 40

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This year, 2017 has been a rough one for wearables; Fitbit has shed more than 70 percent of its value this year alone, Intel closed the doors on its wearables unit and Jawbone – a much-loved darling of Silicon Valley – liquidated its assets. Why Woo The Wearable Consumer At All? What’s Next.

Startups 40

Startups Technology Retail 40

PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2018

Customer trust is lost, reputations are damaged, but putting a price tag on these implications is difficult. In Silicon Valley, you’re seeing the departure of high-profile folks because of security issues. Less obvious, however, is the financial impact of data breaches, content abuse and similar cases.

Securities 44

Securities eCommerce Accounting CFO 44

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Security guards today rely very much on pen and paper and phone tag. So I would say we’ve had many more challenges than your typical Silicon Valley startup. Our mission is to keep our cities safe, and we’re building the technology to make that a reality. What we’ve done is used technology to streamline communication.

Securities 69

Securities Math Startups Technology 69

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. What’s it like being a venture investor on this side of the country, as opposed to what seems to be, you know, the gravitational black hole of venture out in Silicon Valley in California? I had just finished another project I was been working on.

Valuation 118

Valuation Investments Marketing Technology 118

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

JOHNSON: Sure, I mean I think – I think, so Franklin’s headquartered in Silicon Valley. You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. So since we’re talking about weather, aside from the weather, what are the cultural differences like, especially in finance?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 86

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Technology 86

PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2019

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.

Technology 75

Technology Startups Construction Entertainment 75

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

But my deal is I use one of these services where anything I find interesting, I just tag it as a “to watch.” RITHOLTZ: Your bucket list, which most people don’t tag. HAMBURGER: So, when the day after Silicon Valley Bank — RITHOLTZ: Blew up, right. RITHOLTZ: Watch it later. HAMBURGER: Yes, something like that.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 61

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Compliance Investments Finance 61

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was really kind of in the Tag Heuer timeline for me, career-wise, that I became aware of Ben and of Hodinkee. FOWLER: Yes, I was at LVMH for a number of years, mostly with Louis Vuitton for the first few years. RITHOLTZ: No kidding?

Retail 65

Retail Advertising Numbers Economics 65

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

I can either just give it away for free, which, you know, I started the cash tag dollar sign… RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Well, Silicon Valley broke that, that was kind of a crazy run on the bank that you could blame a handful of venture capitalists for starting. Silicon Valley Bank was the opposite of GameStop.

Leverage 112

Leverage Investments Valuation Finance 112

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Tag on top of that for healthcare. And 00:48:02 [Speaker Changed] So all of Silicon Valley, something like 25% of the C-suite, maybe even more. So in other words, people, companies, employers don’t wanna hire a $40,000 employee, right. Still far above minimum wage, but on the bottom half of the wage spectrum.

Healthcare 57

Healthcare Economics Math Education 57

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And there, people were warning that that was about to happen in the spring when Silicon Valley Bank, right. And First Republic blew up, this is it. You’re gonna see credit markets turn, go upside down, and that’ll be it For equities, not so much, right?

Marketing 61

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 61

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You know, I’ll be honest, Morgan Stanley had a really dominant banking presence in, in California, in West Coast and Silicon Valley, 00:30:37 [Speaker Changed] Mary Meeker Yeah. So, you know, I saw what some of our competitors were doing. Absolutely dominated that 00:30:39 [Speaker Changed] Space. They had a dominant position.

Marketing 108

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 108