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The Self Educating Child

Mr. Money Mustache

Because of the Internet, and to be honest a damned large dose of privilege due to having two educated parents always available because we were retired before he was even born, he has been able to feed his thirst for knowledge with incredible efficiency. CodeParade – great bits of coding, math, and graphics combined.

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Transcript: Marcus Shaw

The Big Picture

Venture capital, private equity, just were not recruiting for those spaces. Wall Street has been pretty bad at recruiting black talent. RITHOLTZ: So is it safe to say that Wall Street, in general, but alternatives like private equity and venture capital, were not recruiting at historically black colleges and universities?

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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. So I applied to Maryland State retirement.

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Transcript: Anat Admati

The Big Picture

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

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. So we have a pretty well tried and tested campus recruitment approach. SALISBURY: Sure. SALISBURY: Yes.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

And your bio explains how you were recruited to Vanguard. And it’s paid off, it’s paid spades in terms of, it helps us make sure that we’re recruiting the right people, it helps us in terms of retaining folks. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk about that. I thought that was a really interesting story. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven. I didn’t know a whole lot about markets or stocks.