PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Venture capitalist (VC) firm Index Ventures is on its way to earn $1.6 Index Ventures’ portfolio includes iZettle and Adyen , with unconfirmed reports of a Funding Circle initial public offering (IPO) that could push Index Ventures into the $2 billion mark.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

? ?. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, what can I say, I have yet another extra special guest, Albert Wenger, managing partner at Union Square Ventures. I found this conversation to be really intriguing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Their fanbase — though smaller than, say, Nike’s — is both very dedicated and rather well-known, particularly if one happens to hang out in Silicon Valley with Google’s Larry Page or venture capitalist Ben Horowitz. The merino wool blend they use is proprietary, and the price tag for one pair is $95.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Research from Fung Global Retail & Technology shows that smaller players are likely to vie for a piece of the pie that is 90 percent dominated by Alibaba and Tencent-backed firms. Venture capital interest and investments have been on the rise, so growth is in the cards. Roughly half of firms fall short, Verizon found.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

But Neil Mawston, the executive director at research firm Strategy Analytics, noted that the growth recovery is slight, largely driven by seasonal demand and product launches, not an actual buck-up in consumer appreciation. Over the last few weeks, some pretty big name firms have decided to say sayonara to the Apple Watch App store.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. And what this does is get people at the bottom of the rung competing with the capitalists, which is, by the way, what this country needs every 100 years is a new Henry Ford. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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