The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

We have an elegant business that works because how all the pieces fit together and leverage our hyper-efficient network infrastructure in a way that we believe no competitors can match. Startup is using a series of enterprise summarization tools where they can look at a bunch of emails and very quickly summarize them into executive reports.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

I mean, there have been leveraged loans and high yield bonds since the 1980s. You get paid for the incremental risk that you’re taking in a more leveraged capital structure. RITHOLTZ: But you’re not dealing with startups; you’re dealing with — BARATTA: Correct. BARATTA: Even more mature companies.

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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 I had no work experience in anything. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 27, 2025

But it did have a good, a fortunate opportunity to go really work at a startup hedge fund. And they were really down there running a leveraged loan in a high yield business again, which was fit really nicely with what I was doing. I liked to see how, how businesses make money and, and so I always envisioned myself doing that.

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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

JULY 31, 2023

It’s like, wait, you’re going to, all this Robinhood is a public company. We’re more startup than established entity, so not everybody has that ability. They’d come into the pandemic incredibly leveraged, huge amounts of debt. And like, to some degree they kind of won. RITHOLTZ: Ironically, right.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

00:11:30 [Speaker Changed] So that flipping of, of the power dynamics from the capital to the entrepreneur, does that have anything to do with companies now staying private for so much longer? 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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