The Big Picture

JANUARY 30, 2024

Are these all run independently or are they run as part of a big conglomerate or a little bit of each? And the rest of the pack includes Vanguard as well as a bunch of other much smaller clean sheet startups in, in the space. One is that small startup and the other is the company that has its own ongoing revenue source.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

RITHOLTZ: But you’re not dealing with startups; you’re dealing with — BARATTA: Correct. BARATTA: The media conglomerate? BARATTA: The industry wasn’t called private equity; it was called venture capital and it wasn’t — RITHOLTZ: Oh, really? BARATTA: — technology. RITHOLTZ: Sure. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Uncertainty of It All ) • The Chatbots Are Coming for Google : ChatGPT and a handful of startups founded by Google alumni are aiming to reimagine search for the AI age. I find it interesting that there is no Forecasters’ Hall of Fame. There is no one to induct. ( Businessweek ) see also ChatGPT Sparked an AI Craze.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Whether the product was introduced by a shoestrings startup or percolated through the mid-level management of a conglomerate, at some point the guy with the idea has to meet with the guy who has the power to bring it to market. (

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The Big Picture

JUNE 11, 2024

We were basically dealing with 401k plans that were from startup to a hundred or so million. So when the Royals came for sale, they were putting it together, a conglomerate in Kansas City. So, you know, we, on the, on the private wealth side, we work with the mass affluent, we work with people that have 10 million up.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

KLINSKY: — that, you know, when we found it, it was a very messed-up conglomerate doing race track tote boards and defense electronics. RITHOLTZ: So this is in pouring money into startups like venture does. And the transaction that I’m most proud of in the ‘90s was a company called General Instrument — RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 3, 2025

It has since used the startup's technology to launch its own AI virtual assistant called Copilot, which is now embedded in its flagship software products, including Windows, Edge, and Bing. Microsoft: 6.3% of the S&P 500 Microsoft rocked the tech sector at the start of 2023, when it announced plans to invest $10 billion in OpenAI.

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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. This is a conglomerate in the 1970s.

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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 24, 2024

I had, I had a, you know, a history of being very scoopy, getting inside companies, getting people And, and you know, Amazon’s such a big company, you know, they’re $2 trillion today and they’re kind of like a giant, they not kind of, they’re giant conglomerate. What does that mean?

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