The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

It was underwriting, you know, it was like doing investment banking, underwriting public offerings. It was dealing with like the sort of guts of the bank and like new product development and capital and, and balance sheet. How, how indexing works and how big asset managers like BlackRock or Vanguard or State Street work.

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The Big Picture

JULY 2, 2024

I think a lot of startup founders are actually the opposite, where it’s like we choose to go to the moon, not because it’s easy, but because we think it’s going to be easy. But back to the fellowship, did it help you raise other assets that people say, oh, Peter Thiel is successful if he’s putting money into Eva?

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

They do everything from hard assets like real estate, infrastructure, aircraft, power plants, to private debt, event driven opportunities. Europe accounts for anywhere between a third and a half of their investments. I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. So there was some assets that were salvageable.

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The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

RITHOLTZ: And — and to — for a little context, maybe for some of the audience in America who may not be that familiar with Man Group, this isn’t like a startup. And now we, you know, we’re just shy of $145 billion of assets on the management across the entire credit curve. Not its asset management, its brokerage piece.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

With us, the law firm is basically a customer of MarketCounsel for a lot of our startup work. For most of the clients that come to us for startup work, right? And so, you can decide that you want to sever your employment and then begin the startup work, but that’s not tenable — RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right?

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The Big Picture

JUNE 11, 2024

Did that, was the substantial purchase, a hundred plus billion dollars in 401k 00:17:03 [Speaker Changed] Assets. We were basically dealing with 401k plans that were from startup to a hundred or so million. Investment banks, there’s two and a few others. That’s right. So the RA space is highly fragmented.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

So we think of Fidelity as like this big giant stodgy asset manager. And so I left a OL for a startup in music. Now, you don’t mention in the book if you were incentivized with stock, but I assume you’re joining a startup. I think it’s a great book for 30 something men in investment banking.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. KLINSKY: But I also just finished being the chairman of the private equity industry, something called the American Investment Council. KKR was the biggest with $400 million of assets and eight people. RITHOLTZ: What other lines of investment do you focus on?

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

DAMODARAN: Well, you know, I’m glad you brought up Apple because I think of all the things Steve Jobs did that made the kind of rebirth of Apple possible, the first was on the original iTunes disruption, he told the team, and this is, I think, well documented, act like you’re a startup. Don’t worry about legacy effects.

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Insight Partners

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In the SMB/knowledge worker space, startups like Bardeen are targeting simpler use cases using no-code platforms and a rapidly increasing library of reusable Agents across users. Executive reporting and knowledge retrieval (Production): A second investment bank leverages AI Agents to produce monthly executive briefing reports.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In addition to BMW and Volkswagen AG , Northvolt’s top investors included Goldman Sachs’s asset management arm, Denmark’s biggest pension fund ATP, Baillie Gifford & Co. The Financial Times reported on Saturday that funds run by Goldman Sachs Asset Management are set to write down almost US$900 million at the end of the year. “But

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The Big Picture

MARCH 4, 2025

Previously she was co-head of the bank’s Innovation Economy Group. Really fascinating because she sees the world from a very unique perch, has incredible access to every aspect of both commercial and investing banking that a small startup or medium-sized company, and by medium I mean up to $2 billion in revenue might need.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

trillion in total assets and advises on a whole lot more. I was working directly with the CEO and president of both companies, but I realized that the biotech vertical was not my playing field for the long term, hence the NBA at Harvard to find another career path and, and that led me into asset management. Is there any other kind?

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 23, 2024

Co-founder and managing partner at OvaTure Climate VC focuses on all sorts of fascinating startup and climate change technology, from concrete to energy production, to storage, to carbon capture, to material science, to alternative fuels. And a campaign is like a lot like a startup. It’s a really flat organization.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

You begin at a few tech startups, you found Dex, which eventually gets acquired by Lotus. What was the startup process like? He was running the h and q investment bank, and then Roger was my next door neighbor and very good friends with Jim. No, no doubt about that. This was mid 1980s, is that about right?

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A fascinating life came to a realization that he was wasting his time, his physical health and, and a lot of other assets that he had and kind of rejiggered his whole approach to what he was doing. And the reason I say it’s empowering and inspiring is because it reminds you that time is your most precious asset.

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