The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. From that experience, I realized that I really loved startups, but then I was never going to be good operator, but I thought I could maybe be a decent investor. WENGER: Yes, absolutely.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Brad Gerstner is a founder and investor in technology startups. They invest primarily in private and public companies. Pete Legal, had built an RV company called Cobra, sold it or partnered with private equity, had a bad experience, left that, and said, I’m gonna do it over again. How do you think about that?

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 3, 2024

The nation’s market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), last month stayed the implementation of its climate-related disclosures by public companies in the face of multiple legal challenges from attorneys general of several Republican-led states.

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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

It sounds like a good background for someone who eventually ends up buying companies. 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: Even more mature companies. BARATTA: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 15, 2024

That was a global macro hedge fund, and so that’s a really fun part of finance where you just get to try to figure out at a high level what’s going on in the world and lots of arguments about politics and economics and history and financial markets. Tell us a little bit about your experience working with Teal at Clarion Capital.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? And so it was a whole new idea, I found it very interesting.

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American Investment Council

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This outpaced the median public company, which created only one net new job per 100 full-time employees. A joint report from AIC and PitchBook released in May highlighted the increasing reliance of small and middle-market businesses on private credit for financing.

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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? Travel, obviously important, finance important, it was a little unclear then how that would it all shake out. It’s like, wait, you’re going to, all this Robinhood is a public company.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 27, 2025

Not really related to the Barings Bank of, of old, you know, if I think of Barings Bank, you think of the, the bank that blew up when you had an unauthorized trader acting out, as well as the first bank in China and Japan and finance. Was finance always the career plan. Great, Barry Ritholtz : Great to have you here.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : There’s, there’s a different sense of, of creating a company versus creating a, a certain type of space inhabited by people. So, so let’s talk about some of those companies that you built. You begin at a few tech startups, you found Dex, which eventually gets acquired by Lotus.

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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. That seems like there’s endless amounts of money around and, and no shortage of people willing to, to fund startups.

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