The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

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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Aleph

JANUARY 14, 2023

link] Abundant liquidity from the Fed emboldened growth investors to bid prices to unsustainable valuations. There is more opportunity in London than much of Italy Jan 10, 2023 Xi Jinping’s plan to reset China’s economy and win back friends [link] It’s rare to see someone have severe opinions “spin on a dime.”

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

? ?. 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.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Brad Gerstner is a founder and investor in technology startups. And he had a little startup RV company called Forest River. I would say the thing that connects them is just voracious curiosity about the world of politics and, you know, economies and trying to make sense out of it. What can I say? Once again?

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. RITHOLTZ: He was the first (inaudible) in round B at the higher valuation. ” 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. LINDZON: Yes.

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