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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. SALISBURY: So I led the European Special Situations Group from 2008 to 2013.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

I did in 2013 the largest banking transaction that the market had seen since the financial crisis, it was a $2.4 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.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It was about $170 million valuation. So here’s the math, Barry. If you have seven $50 incremental year, then every 10 year old in America, when they enter into the fifth or sixth grade and the teacher says, Hey, today we’re gonna talk about math or compounding or stocks or capitalism, they’ll say, open up.

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MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. RITHOLTZ: He was the first (inaudible) in round B at the higher valuation. Is it about the valuation? Back then I was Wallstrip was like a 400K valuation. RITHOLTZ: Valuation didn’t make much of a difference.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. Corey Hoffstein : So throughout 2013, I was doing a lot of this research. And so in 2013, I’m staring down my largest client, all of a sudden it becomes obvious. It’s just not smart on a math basis to do that.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

There’s a lot of people writing about that back in 2012, 2013, that they started selling at a premium multiple to the market, which is very obviously not the case today. SCHWARTZ: But even broad developed markets, they’re half the valuation of the U.S. SCHWARTZ: You get some of these international markets. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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