The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

I published what’s called a comment, so like a very short one about this great tax law case with this guy who like won the lottery and then wanted to get his lottery winnings treated as capital gains. You know, it was all this like structuring and like tax and legal and accounting stuff. Matt Levine : 00:03:44 You know, I did.

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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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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So that’s really interesting because what I wrote down was tax efficiency is one of the drivers. DAMODARAN: If I can throw this out to my class, and the first thing they come up with is it more tax-efficient to do buybacks than dividends? DAMODARAN: Capital gains then were taxed with 28 percent. DAMODARAN: Right.

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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

Last fall, the company invited investment banks to pitch for roles in an IPO that could have valued the battery maker at US$20 billion, the FT then reported. Goldman Sachs’ investment banking business is also a large creditor of Northvolt; the battery company owes it $4.78mn, according to its Chapter 11 filing.

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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 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

JULY 31, 2023

Burger King Tim Hortons, I remember very clearly because it was in the middle of those waves of kind of tax dodgy, those inversion deals. At that point, I’d been covering, as you mentioned, investment banking, Goldman Sachs for a couple years. I don’t have that much– RITHOLTZ: The name of the startup is?

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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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