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AUGUST 29, 2023

DAVIS: It’s a long story, but originally I went to school for engineering. Got to school, realized that I wasn’t very good at mechanical drawing, which is a big part of aerospace engineering curriculum. DAVIS: Where international equities, because of valuations, probably 7% to 7.5%. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference.

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MAY 9, 2023

And my dad had always said, as many young kids get this advice, doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer. 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.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

I got the sense that, so Churnin takes 51% for a fairly modest valuation, 10 or $15 million. But it just, he just, so we hired him and then we hired more engineers and we hired product people and you know, we made the app functional. That, that gives Barstool a half a billion dollar valuation. Three subsequent sales in 2020.

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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. Bob Bragg is my audio engineer. You have the liquidity, the tax efficiency, the transparency.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? Justin Milner is my audio engineer. Think about the incredible growth of U.S. technology, that was something to ride for a while.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. 00:44:11 [Speaker Changed] Kathy would may have her own valuation, so, but I can’t replicate it myself. Why is there such a spread between US domestic and overseas companies in terms of you’re a value investor in terms of straight up valuation? My audio engineer is Kaylee Lapper.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

ILMANEN: It’s always good to think of starting yields and valuation sort of two sides of the same coin. But in conclusions, I did put there that it just seems that stars are aligning for some fast pain and it wasn’t just high valuations but there was a catalyst. Explain that. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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JANUARY 14, 2023

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

I was an undergrad studying business and engineering. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. ASNESS: Well, first of all, I’m going to somewhat disappoint you saying we do not take very big bets on views like timing asset classes based on valuation. Tell us a little bit about that.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

Undergraduate applied mathematics, master’s degree in financial engineering, a little bit of, of teaching. So how Barry Ritholtz : Do you go from a PhD program to financial engineering masters? They ended up going back to a school in LA called Claremont, and they had a financial engineering program there. It was kidding.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. 00:01:58 [Savita Subramanian] Well, I started out as an electrical engineering computer science major. 00:03:00 [Speaker Changed] I read a quote from you way back when you said your parents were pushing you to be either an engineer or a doctor. Is this true?

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The Big Picture

JUNE 30, 2024

She leads the company’s 50-person team of engineers, attorneys, and analysts, and is a member of the firm’s valuation & investment committees and board of directors. The big picture: While he may represent the most extreme example, Trump isn’t the only one who has realized a lack of shame can be a crucial survival skill.

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MARCH 12, 2024

And we’ve automated the, the appraisal process for valuation, both intrinsic value, meaning like, where would we pay it, where would we buy it, and where is the fair market price that asset from that level, from price and from consumer behavior now. Kayleigh Lepar is my audio engineer. So I had real support around Wall Street.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If you think about what AI is already doing for the enterprise, we’re seeing 30 to 50% productivity improvements in engineers. It was about $170 million valuation. So here’s the math, Barry. Sarah Livesey is my audio engineer. Now, follow me on this. Call centers are now 50% more productive.

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The Big Picture

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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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that. The math never seems to work out. Justin Milner is my audio engineer. We’ve been at it for coming on a decade, had only a couple 100,000 customers. Paris Wald is my producer.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So here’s the question about 2020 and we could talk a little bit about the pandemic, when you have an event from outside the market, sort of feels less like the dot-coms and the valuation issue, and more like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, it’s totally outside of the system. Robert Bragg is my audio engineer.

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