Remove Engineering Remove Numbers Remove Valuation
article thumbnail

10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

The Big Picture

The challenge in writing How NOT to Invest was organizing a large number of ideas, many of which were only loosely connected, into something coherent, understandable, and, most importantly, readable. How can we re-engineer our media consumption to make it more useful to our needs? Bad Numbers : 4. It is March 18th!

Investing 317
article thumbnail

Thursday links: the cause of bubbles

Abnormal Returns

(theblock.co) Companies Cory Doctorow, "In its nearly 25-year history, Google has made one and a half successful products: a once-great search engine and a pretty good Hotmail clone. howardlindzon.com) Private assets Why private equity needs much better valuations. Everything else it built in-house has crashed and burned."

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

What Shift EV does is it takes existing delivery vans and retrofits them in a space of a couple of hours, from internal combustion engine to electric. What do they do with the internal combustion engine and — WENGER: That’s a great question. RITHOLTZ: A couple of hours? WENGER: A couple of hours. RITHOLTZ: That’s amazing.

Valuation 305
article thumbnail

Transcript: Graham Weaver

The Big Picture

Graham has a really interesting background, both engineering at Princeton and essentially launching a PE firm while he was a graduate student at Stanford. When I hear someone has an engineering degree, I tend to think of venture capital, not private equity. I found our conversation absolutely fascinating and I think you will also.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Jim O’Shaughnessy on Infinite Wisdom

The Big Picture

And, and I kind of raised my hand and said, dad, uncle John, don’t you think it might be a better idea to look at it by the numbers? Valuations tended to crash and burn very, very cheap valuations tended to do well. The numbers are pretty bad. And they dismissed me. This is 1976. So I decided what’s a quant?

article thumbnail

Transcript: Brian Higgins, King Street

The Big Picture

00:02:13 [Speaker Changed] Well, actually I started out electrical engineering. First, 00:02:18 [Speaker Changed] First two years, electrical engineering. I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation.

Numbers 147
article thumbnail

Winning With Brain Power at Bridgeway Capital

Validea

Houston-based Bridgeway Capital, founded in 1993 by MIT graduate John Montgomery, has always used number-crunching as a fundamental, well before ETFs began relying on computer algorithms to select value or growth stocks. Montgomery began his career as an engineer in the transit industry, until earning his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1985.