The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

What led to the interest in finance? HAMBURGER: Quite frankly, the interest in finance started when I was young. When did you kind of realize, hey, I can make law and finance work well together, and one plus one is three? With us, the law firm is basically a customer of MarketCounsel for a lot of our startup work.

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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. That’s not the thought process of someone who wants to go into finance. RITHOLTZ: Sure, all the little banking things, yeah. And it is slightly surreal.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

And so he has this unique way of taking these very complicated, sophisticated ideas and making them both accessible and amusing to both finance professionals and, and laypeople. Nobody in the world writes about markets, finance derivatives, hedge funds, you name it, the way Matt does. Over 300,000 people get his, his daily missive.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

I mean, I knew nothing about finance. And so I didn’t know, you know, what finance was all about. And, you know, I needed to earn some money and I was adept in finance. BARATTA: I think private credit has filled the hole for these smaller businesses, but really not on the full banking suite. BARATTA: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

So, is it, is it safe to say finance was always in the career plans? 00:02:24 [Speaker Changed] Finance and business was always in the career plans. I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. We should be like, 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] It’s 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] A startup. In those years.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 30, 2024

00:00:07 [BARRY RITHOLTZ] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Sarah Kirschbaum Levy, CEO of Betterment has a fascinating background in media, brand building, marketing, as well as finance. And the rest of the pack includes Vanguard as well as a bunch of other much smaller clean sheet startups in, in the space.

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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. You finances is very, very broad, but there’s hedge funds, mutual funds, smma, then there’s dealing with people, right? Investment banks, there’s two and a few others. Well, we have 60, 70,000 private clients.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. RITHOLTZ: So even back then, when it was the size that you could take a Christmas picture with everybody in one room at Goldman, they’re still doing investment banking. RITHOLTZ: So this is in pouring money into startups like venture does. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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SuperAngel.Fund

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Enter Bainbridge , whose mission is to support founders, heads of finance, and other decision makers with financial planning and forecasting solutions. Austin: I'm the type of person that needs a "Superbowl" kind of target to get me out of bed in the morning, and I love the part of startups that's about creating something from scratch.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And then meld in a little psychology and behavioral finance, and you have what is truly a masterclass by one of the great professors in the world of finance. ASWATH DAMODARAN, KERSCHNER FAMILY CHAIR IN FINANCE EDUCATION, NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: I’m glad to be back. RITHOLTZ: That’ll help finance the purchase.

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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. Insurance loan AI sales Agent (Buy): A leading EU bank employs outbound voice AI Agents to increase conversions for loan insurance products.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Northvolt scrambled to keep the financing flowing, but as Germany’s car industry fell deeper into its own crisis, it became clear orders would dry up. billion to finance its new business plan, Carlsson said, telling reporters that “we’ll regret it in 20 years if we’re not driving transition” to clean technologies.

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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

JULY 31, 2023

” T LIZ HOFFMAN, BUSINESS AND FINANCE EDITOR, SEMAFOR: Thanks, Barry. Was the plan always to cover finance? At that point, I’d been covering, as you mentioned, investment banking, Goldman Sachs for a couple years. We’re more startup than established entity, so not everybody has that ability.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

What are the advantages to being an individual making single decision investments into a startup? How, how different is the UK finance from the US and start the startup mentality? 00:19:00 [Speaker Changed] I mean, that’s a well established mature, if you could say mature startup region, correct.

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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. Was it, was it politics or finance? And a campaign is like a lot like a startup.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

What sort of skills and philosophies did you as a college athlete find applicable to the rest of your life and or wealth and finance? Very applicable to trading desks and other things involved in finance. Barry Ritholtz : So first you transition from sports to finance, then you effectively transition from finance to content creation.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Forbes, Midas list five times top 100 venture capitalists according to CBE Insights, top VCs on the New York Times list, top 20 private equity power players, FinTech Finance 40. Just an incredible track record of investing primarily in the healthcare, but also the financial technology space. This really does feel like a secure app.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in 2020 I finally got to see it from the inside. They couldn’t stop us.” ( The Athletic ) Be sure to check out our Masters in Business this week with Liz Hoffman, Liz Hoffman, the Business and Finance Editor at Semafor.

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