Remove Communication Remove Economy Remove Math Remove Startup
article thumbnail

Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. We need writers.

Assets 141
article thumbnail

Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

There was XO Communication and McLeod. So I mean, in ’07 and ’08, you know, what killed the economy in ’07 and ‘08 were mortgages going down. RITHOLTZ: So this is in pouring money into startups like venture does. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? RITHOLTZ: I recall. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Investing 257
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Liz Hoffman

The Big Picture

And it was day by day from the seat of, it was the month that the economy shut down. And it’s two dozen CEOs, investors, policy makers from like all across the economy. It’s kind of apparent some of these industries are going to be the first to really succumb to an economy shutting down. Did they self-selected?

Retail 130
article thumbnail

Transcript: Steve Case

The Big Picture

? ?. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steve Case on AOL, Startups & Venture , is below. And if you are at all interested in technology, venture, startups, entrepreneurship, I suspect you will also. And in our early days, we really just tried to figure out like many startups get noticed to stay alive.

Startup 161
article thumbnail

Transcript: Howard Lindzon

The Big Picture

” If I, if the president ever, this is like a blog post I wrote when the President tweets about the economy, the market will move. So the smartest thing I ever did in this where Social Leverage started is I took everything I made and just redistributed it to everybody I saw doing a startup around … RITHOLTZ: Just every company.

Media 278