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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. And whether it’s all numbers or even numbers. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. Number one, longevity.

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Transcript: Marta Norton

The Big Picture

So there are a number of us heading in out of college into the BLS. So I applied and was hired as an ETF analyst in 2005. And so Morningstar coverage was really just getting started on ETFs, right in the 2005, period. NORTON: So 2005-2006 timeframe. And how do we think about them from a valuation perspective?

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Thinking Big and Survivorship Bias

The Irrelevant Investor

After five years as a private business, they went public in 2004 at a valuation of $27B. A googol is the number one followed by 100 zeros (Larry Page thought it was spelled Google). On February 8, 2005, Google Maps went live. The search-engine giant became the fastest company ever to reach $1 billion in revenue.

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China: The Next Frontier In Venture

Brown Advisory

China: The Next Frontier In Venture ajackson Wed, 07/22/2020 - 11:37 In Thomas Friedman’s award-winning 2005 book, The World Is Flat , he highlighted how globalization had leveled the playing field, offering all competitors an equal opportunity. and almost nine times the number of mobile payment users. at that time.

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China: The Next Frontier In Venture

Brown Advisory

In Thomas Friedman’s award-winning 2005 book, The World Is Flat , he highlighted how globalization had leveled the playing field, offering all competitors an equal opportunity. Number of University Degrees in Science and Engineering 2000-2015. and almost nine times the number of mobile payment users. Wed, 07/22/2020 - 11:37.

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Transcript: Jonathan Miller

The Big Picture

And I literally put the entire Schedule A, which is the pricing square footage unit numbers in a Hewlett Packard 41B using bit mapping. And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. Everybody knew the number but the appraiser. What are the, you know, I’d literally have it in my handheld. Just keep it fair.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

The Big Picture

I was thinking any number of things and mostly that I didn’t really know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I was not kind of at all informed by, you know, gender norms that people asked me a lot about now, in particular how do you know a woman, how did you think about ending up in this thing? MCCARTHY: Yeah, absolutely.

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