2008 Math Valuation 
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JULY 21, 2023
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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
I led the Union Square Ventures investment in Etsy, I became a venture partner for that, and then became a GP in the 2008 fund. So along those lines, there are some venture firms that don’t really seem to care a lot about valuations and others seem to focus on a little bit. A year ago, late stage valuations had gone just bonkers.
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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. And then I moved back to London at the end of 2008, which was a really interesting pivot.
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JANUARY 21, 2025
But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. And then when I left the journal for the first time in 2008, they said, well, who should we hire to replace you? I did it in 2008 in oh nine.
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FEBRUARY 6, 2024
I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. I could maybe flip that around a little bit since I think particularly post 2008, 2009, the quality style of investing has become a lot more popular.
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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.
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DECEMBER 6, 2022
And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. Think about the two founders of Global X, Bruno and Jose, they set up Global X in 2008. BERRUGA: Exactly.
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