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DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. Bob Bragg is my audio engineer. You have the liquidity, the tax efficiency, the transparency.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

What Shift EV does is it takes existing delivery vans and retrofits them in a space of a couple of hours, from internal combustion engine to electric. What do they do with the internal combustion engine and — WENGER: That’s a great question. RITHOLTZ: A couple of hours? WENGER: A couple of hours. RITHOLTZ: That’s amazing.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. We built a company that was focused on valuation, initially, actually targeting corporate strategic planning departments.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

DAVIS: It’s a long story, but originally I went to school for engineering. Got to school, realized that I wasn’t very good at mechanical drawing, which is a big part of aerospace engineering curriculum. DAVIS: Where international equities, because of valuations, probably 7% to 7.5%. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

He has a very interesting approach to thinking about market valuations and strategies and when to deploy capital, when to go with the crowd, when to lean against the crowd, and has amassed and excellent track record. Second part of our framework is valuation fundamental work. Well, that means valuations are probably too high.

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MAY 9, 2023

And my dad had always said, as many young kids get this advice, doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer. 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.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. My audio engineer is John Wasserman. They will earn that market return less, whatever they’re paying. Anna Luke is my producer, Sean Russo is my researcher.

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JUNE 18, 2024

I got the sense that, so Churnin takes 51% for a fairly modest valuation, 10 or $15 million. But it just, he just, so we hired him and then we hired more engineers and we hired product people and you know, we made the app functional. That, that gives Barstool a half a billion dollar valuation. Three subsequent sales in 2020.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

00:02:13 [Speaker Changed] Well, actually I started out electrical engineering. First, 00:02:18 [Speaker Changed] First two years, electrical engineering. I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that. The math never seems to work out. Justin Milner is my audio engineer. We’ve been at it for coming on a decade, had only a couple 100,000 customers. Paris Wald is my producer.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. 00:44:11 [Speaker Changed] Kathy would may have her own valuation, so, but I can’t replicate it myself. Why is there such a spread between US domestic and overseas companies in terms of you’re a value investor in terms of straight up valuation? My audio engineer is Kaylee Lapper.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? Justin Milner is my audio engineer. Think about the incredible growth of U.S. technology, that was something to ride for a while.

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MARCH 12, 2024

And we’ve automated the, the appraisal process for valuation, both intrinsic value, meaning like, where would we pay it, where would we buy it, and where is the fair market price that asset from that level, from price and from consumer behavior now. Kayleigh Lepar is my audio engineer. So I had real support around Wall Street.

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MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. 00:01:58 [Savita Subramanian] Well, I started out as an electrical engineering computer science major. 00:03:00 [Speaker Changed] I read a quote from you way back when you said your parents were pushing you to be either an engineer or a doctor. Is this true?

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JANUARY 14, 2023

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APRIL 8, 2025

00:31:40 [Speaker Changed] So there’s the emotions and then there’s the math, right? I, you know, I, I do do the math when I, when I do some of my, my chats with the younger folks on the, on the team and I say, okay, real growth inflation term premium, you see this thing, it’s been zero or negative for the last 15 years.

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MARCH 21, 2023

I was an undergrad studying business and engineering. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. ASNESS: Well, first of all, I’m going to somewhat disappoint you saying we do not take very big bets on views like timing asset classes based on valuation. Tell us a little bit about that.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

So I was delving through your background and I had to first ask BS in management science and a master’s in engineering and in chemical engineering from Stanford, where you were a Mayfield fellow and then an MBA from Harvard. 00:24:49 [Speaker Changed] So let’s talk a little bit about valuation in the public markets.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. That is not being reflected in valuations from a top down standpoint. One is, if you think about EM, equity valuations versus the s and p, the EM index is trading at, you know, 10 to 11 times forward pe. You can get growth at extremely compelling valuations.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I taught myself to program when I was 12 and all throughout late middle school and high school, I was programming games for my Game boy and developing game engines for the computer. And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. It’s just not smart on a math basis to do that.

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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. Is it about the valuation? Back then I was Wallstrip was like a 400K valuation. RITHOLTZ: Valuation didn’t make much of a difference.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Undergraduate applied mathematics, master’s degree in financial engineering, a little bit of, of teaching. So how Barry Ritholtz : Do you go from a PhD program to financial engineering masters? They ended up going back to a school in LA called Claremont, and they had a financial engineering program there. It was kidding.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So here’s the question about 2020 and we could talk a little bit about the pandemic, when you have an event from outside the market, sort of feels less like the dot-coms and the valuation issue, and more like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, it’s totally outside of the system. Robert Bragg is my audio engineer.

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MAY 6, 2025

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. Because if you don’t include every single data point, then in the matrix math you have a divide by zero issue. The valuation of risk versus 00:46:33 [Speaker Changed] Reward 00:46:34 [Speaker Changed] Is something that I think a machine cannot do in the same way that human can.

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JUNE 30, 2024

She leads the company’s 50-person team of engineers, attorneys, and analysts, and is a member of the firm’s valuation & investment committees and board of directors. The big picture: While he may represent the most extreme example, Trump isn’t the only one who has realized a lack of shame can be a crucial survival skill.

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