The Big Picture

JULY 26, 2022

What makes Graham so interesting is while everybody else in the world of private equity is focused on the analytics and crunching numbers and creating econometric models that will tell you where to invest, I think they’ve found a very different model that has been extremely successful for them, where the key focus is on talent.

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Consulting Management Numbers Investing 280

The Big Picture

MAY 7, 2024

She has a number of investments as as really a entrepreneur and a venture investor. I went in there and the valuation was below a billion dollars. And at two years the valuation was $13 billion. And so the magic number was $388 a month. That they could add to PayPal’s numbers. He’s great. One to 13.

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Startup Advertising Engineering Numbers 139

The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

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Assets Clients Investing Investments 280

The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. Less, 20, 30%?

Management 130

Management Investing Investments Government 130

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And I literally put the entire Schedule A, which is the pricing square footage unit numbers in a Hewlett Packard 41B using bit mapping. And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. Everybody knew the number but the appraiser. What are the, you know, I’d literally have it in my handheld. Just keep it fair.

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Sales Numbers Taxes Marketing 130

SEI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

So I don't know if we have a full quantification yet, because I think it'll be a dynamic, ongoing process, but I think as people monitor our expense numbers and start to look at that unit, you will start to see those expenses coming down. Maybe if you can just comment on your advisor recruiting efforts. Rajiv Bhatia: Got it.

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Clients Assets Banking Planning 49

The Irrelevant Investor

AUGUST 17, 2015

Rational measures of valuation had taken a backseat to “mouse clicks and momentum,” as Robertson put it, and he had no stomach for more punishment. On March 30, with the NASDAQ already 15 percent off its peak, Robertson broke the news to his investors. 28 Whereas D.

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Marketing Marketing Recruitment Assets 52

The Big Picture

AUGUST 16, 2022

And then in 1982, Dean Witter recruited me to join them and to really start managing what was their fledgling hedge fund practice, which was really with CTAs back in that era, and then evolved into, you know, more macro style funds. Maybe we’ll get down to 4% or 5%, but that’s the number the Fed doesn’t like.

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Management Assets Risk Management Valuation 286

The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

You can use this in a number of ways. And that’s a pretty good number. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. RITHOLTZ: Meaning it would be a recruitment challenge. If you’re long a dollar of high beta of low beta, I sometimes get the sign wrong in interviews.

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Valuation Investing Investments Numbers 156

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. So remember data and data infrastructure, that is the number one primitive to ai. It was about $170 million valuation.

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Investing Investments Startup Accounting 246

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

He was instrumental in getting a number of very positive policy actions passed over the past decade. I’ve interviewed a number of people from Revolution. But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that.

Startup 156

Startup Investing Investments Numbers 156

The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And since that happened, I don’t know, about four or five years ago, the fund has been putting up great numbers, outperforming doing really, really well. So then I just started interviewing with companies as they came on, on the, on-campus recruiting to see what, what I could find. 00:03:03 I got rejected at all of them really.

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Management Investing Investments Economy 276

The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. Uh, Fred said to give me your number.” ” (LAUGHTER) And he goes, and then he goes like this and tell Fred not to give up my (EXPLETIVE) phone number anymore. LINDZON: Lesson number two. And hangs up off it.

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Media Investing Investments Valuation 273

Aleph

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Portfolio Management and Finance The buying binge that has propelled US equities almost without interruption for four months is nearing a point where past rebounds caved in [link] Valuations are in the 97th percentile. Hint: check your bank account weekly, show bogus transactions to them quickly, and the bank will eat the loss.

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Banking Government Economics Taxes 59