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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

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. Why is that?

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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. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers. KLINSKY: Well, that is — and it was kind of venture capital numbers because the dollars were so small. So I mean, in ’07 and ’08, you know, what killed the economy in ’07 and ‘08 were mortgages going down.

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Sorted Weekly Tweets

Aleph

Jan 08, 2023 Culture US birth rates are at record lows – even though the number of kids most Americans say they want has held steady [link] There is no mystery here. If you don’t have children while young, odds decrease that you will have children, and a higher number of them. It is the opposite, except in the top decile.

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The 16 Best Business Ideas For Women

Clever Girl Finance

They help keep the economy running while improving their own lives and innovating new ways to make the world better. If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. After all, we’re half the population—that’s billions of women with unique ideas, skillsets, and visions for the future.

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The 48 Best Business Ideas For Women

Clever Girl Finance

They help keep the economy running while improving their own lives and innovating new ways to make the world better. Bookkeeping and accounting If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. Related posts on business ideas for women Try out one of these best business ideas for women!

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

The Big Picture

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. And it was day by day from the seat of, it was the month that the economy shut down.

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