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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. And so that then led to the sale of that business in the late 1990s to Credit Suisse. That’s Barry saying it.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And then somebody convinced me to go into sales and trading, and I decided to do that. Tell us a little bit about what you do on Twitter and how was it getting that through legal and compliance? RIEDER: Well, first of all, anything I tweet goes through legal and compliance before it gets out there, first part. RIEDER: Thanks.

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MAY 8, 2023

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? On the other hand, a lot of these businesses, you know, the entrepreneur had built it up to a certain size, had never done an acquisition, had never built the sales force, had never made technology investments in the full way, had never gone international.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So it can be price-to-sales — RITHOLTZ: Yeah. ASNESS: Well, I was striving for uncorrelated, but then the compliance officer in my head is saying sometimes it doesn’t come out to zero all the time. And it’s really not a compliance reason, I hope it’s more of an intellectual honesty reason.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. With 83% of the s and p 500 reporting earnings sales are roughly in line. What was the career plan?

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. And so we, we get this contract written and I go off to grad school assuming I would go work at a big bank doing sales and trading in some quant role. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

I don’t know I was for sale. The sale of Wallstrip. LINDZON: He went and cut the deal of the century, I imagine, with Twitter, some poor sales kid, a GNIP inside Twitter comes to Bloomberg, like a, like a cub into a wolf den. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. LINDZON: Yes.

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