This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Obviously math, there’s a ton of symbolic logic wherever you look, that classic syllogism, right? 00:17:53 [Speaker Changed] So what was, you know, we stood up a firm in 2013, I’m curious, and that experience was kind of surprising. Absolutely. Here’s the fact pattern, here’s the applicable Absolutely.
I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. I’m talking about diversified financialservices. RITHOLTZ: Whereas the — and the market when — essentially didn’t get above 2000 to like 2013 or so.
And again, I ended up in the financialservices audit practice at KPMG. So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases.
She has an absolutely comprehensive resume in the financialservices industry. And the other interesting thing that’s happened more recently is the, the transition to more personalization in financialservices. Like there’s personalization in all aspects of our life and financialservices is catching up.
So I was very heavy in financialservices stock, which was a great lead gen engine. So, but the people that came to me were people with financial apps. So in 2013, just like you said, VCs are not perfect. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. So we like to win. RITHOLTZ: Yes.
Being an entrepreneur isn’t, anyway, but being an entrepreneur in an industry like financialservices where there’s these old and very incumbent 800 pound gorillas are all around you is certainly not 00:12:56 [Speaker Changed] To, to say the very least. 00:41:54 [Speaker Changed] That was in an Asian manager in 2013.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 36,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content