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Transcript: Joanne Bradford

The Big Picture

And Microsoft was an, an insanely good company to work for to learn how to work at an engineering led company. So I went to a company called Demand Media, which was sort of the first reverse engineering of the algorithm. I went in there and the valuation was below a billion dollars. It was an amazing, amazing time in my career.

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

And so in the 1990s, I developed the, the late 1980s, early 1990s, I developed a skillset around valuation, in particular discounted cash flow or residual income type models, along with a couple of peers out of the consulting industry. It pushes valuations higher over time. Sarah Livesey is my audio engineer.

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Transcript: Victor Khosla, Strategic Value Partners

The Big Picture

I have worked at Booz Allen and Hamilton, I’m a strategic planning guy. I get hired by Citibank in planning. I write a business plan for it. Meredith Frank is my audio engineer. How, how did you look at this and then how did you stand up? I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank.

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Transcript: Sander Gerber, CEO and CIO Hudson Bay Capital

The Big Picture

Because what we would do is we would parachute into places like British Airways, Montreal Trust Ca Industries, and we were like the external strategic planning. 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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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

When you were there, was it a financial engineering firm, or was it a more traditional credit finance firm? COHAN: In fairness, you know, once Jack took over GE Capital in the ‘70s, and you know, once he decided that, as he told me, it was easier to make money from money than from making — RITHOLTZ: Selling widgets or jet engines.