PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

Subscription commerce is attractive to entertainment platforms as well as retail businesses because it locks in revenue streams, and customer data can help with planning and forecasting. The downsides are that the subscription model is subject to customer churn and high acquisition costs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

But to understand how that thinking and those behaviors will influence the direction of the connected economy over the next decade, we need to start with a little math. Something very different can happen, though — something that math geeks (and I am not one of them) call a jump discontinuity. The line is chugging along.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

While consumers were being entertained, they were also shown “See Now Buy Now” fashion shows and prompted via interactive apps to download coupons, raffle tickets, gift certificates, etc. JD.com is really good at math,” Shuai noted. “If Jack Ma even made a surprise appearance as the “retail-tainment-in-chief.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

So, today, having suffered through another 12 weeks of entertaining children who’ve long since grown hot, bored and generally unruly, the most wonderful time of the year has come again for the nation’s moms and dads: It’s officially back-t0-school shopping time. While shopping, she explains why she is so, so happy to be doing so.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

Thousands of Americans will take to the nation’s ballparks this weekend as Americans celebrating the nation’s independence will look to the nation’s national pastime for the entertainment, likely combined with a fireworks display of some kind. exist at all kinds of price points.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

Geography and basic math, it would appear. MLB stadiums have done that math and concluded that they can charge people pretty much whatever they please (within reason, although that concept gets a little more liberal every season) and the fans will still turn out.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

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. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? What’s been been keeping you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. What kept you entertained during the pandemic?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. What’s been keeping you entertained either video or audio? Learn math, learn history. Finance was the natural fit for GMO. So I was at Harvard.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As a starting point, it’s important to recognize that while conversations in the financial services industry over the last decade have entertained the idea that technology (e.g., robo-advisors) might someday replace human advisors, there are still many elements of financial planning that benefit from engagement with a human advisor.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 6, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Dining, entertainment, things like that. So first, none of these people, they don’t track their spending, there’s no budget, there’s not even the mental buckets of, I’m going to spend this much on entertainment and this much on rent. It’s much deeper than math. SETHI: Fantastic.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

That’s where you got your entertainment. 00:17:16 [Speaker Changed] And, and let’s be blunt and honest, Dave Portnoy is incredibly entertaining, even if that persona is an exaggeration of who he is, but no one wants him doing the payroll or the 00:17:30 [Speaker Changed] Healthcare. That’s how you got your email.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

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. What’s been keeping you entertained? I didn’t know what any of these terms meant.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. What’s keeping you entertained? Starting with what are you streaming these days?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there. I believe I love math because it doesn’t have an opinion, that’s a Melody Hobson quote. RITHOLTZ: Right. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

You don’t want to get on the scale, you don’t want to know how much money you spent on entertainment last month. So, got to project this, got to model this, let’s run the numbers, let’s see how this would work, what the math would boil out to for my situation. There’s this gap between the two. Well, yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Colin Camerer : So I, some of it was when I was in college at Johns Hopkins, I, I studied physics and math. And there was people, Physics didn’t have, people, psychology didn’t have math, economics was kind of the right mix. The math doesn’t math. What’s keeping you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes. And yet, the amount of math that’s been produced over the last, you know, few decades is just mind-blowing extraordinary. There’s like the famous Fields Medal, and there’s some other prizes.

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Barry Ritholtz

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. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is.

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Barry Ritholtz

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. And so it is important that at least you’re able to entertain that. Peter is unbelievably brilliant, right?

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.” ” I’ve seen a lot of industry discussion that’s essentially, the math of it can be better on the RIA side because you just don’t have to pay for the things that you don’t need in your platform.

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Barry Ritholtz

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. I think I mentioned earlier, I have like a four-and-a-half-year-old that keeps me really entertain.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? What’s been keeping you entertained post lockdown? I love what those guys are doing in terms of sports and entertainment. But really, even that experience was about building great friends that I played football with. RITHOLTZ: Right. SHAW: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

And so I think, you know, not to say you couldn’t do it when there’s zero, but I just think it’s a lot harder to make the math work. Starting with what’s been keeping you entertained these days? And so that’s really what we feel like we can do in that core and short duration securitized strategies.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. And I, I think that I kind of triangulated on it. I have no family history. I have no, I, you know, knew a real estate developer I thought was really great. I knew I wanted to do something in business.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. What did you do to entertain them? And so, you know, at face value you think it’s an entertaining story, but there’s a lot of, you know, undercurrents in it. I love statistics.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

So that’s the math. Starting with tell us what you’re streaming, what, what’s keeping you entertained these days? So when the fed starts cutting, multiples usually go down and there’s just not enough earnings growth to offset a 10 to 15% multiple contraction between here and the end of the year.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Let me jump to all my favorite questions we ask all of our guests, starting with what did you do to keep yourself entertained during the pandemic? I understood then that, effectively, fair value was determined by a variety of mathematical — a bunch of math, for lack of a better description. RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So what was challenging for me was like, actually, when we moved to the US when I was seven years old, I was always good with math, but my English was below average. Tell us a little bit about what you’ve been streaming, what’s been keeping you entertained these days. ” RITHOLTZ: (LAUGHTER) DAVIS: And it really was.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. WEINSTEIN: Revenge traveling.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? I know I only have you for a limited amount of time, so let me jump to my favorite questions that I asked all of our guests, starting with, tell us what you’ve been streaming these days, what’s been keeping you entertained? Where are we?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? Tell us what you were watching during the lockdown, what kept you entertained? We’ve never had a business — again, go out of business or not paying interest payment. And the question is, you know, how high we can build? KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

And so it’s one of these things that math works. Tell us about Math for America that seeks to improve math education in US public schools. BORISH: So Robinhood Foundation, Math for America, those are the two not-for-profit boards that I sit on. So we’ve done two things at Math for America.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

By the way, you show the math in the book very, very easily and understandable for those who may not be as mathy, which is basically a giant fund collecting 2 percent is much better than a smaller fund that’s killing it, but they’re not starting out with a lot of assets. RITHOLTZ: That’s hilarious. That really is funny.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. What’s kept you entertained these days? So my grandmother realizing that this was her source of income, wanted to be sure she had the right stocks, and she got a trial subscription for 29 bucks for 13 weeks of the value line. And the value line has all these statistical patterns.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

Our favorite five questions we ask all of our guests, starting with what’s been keeping you entertained these days? You know, don’t be overwhelmed by the, the vocabulary or the math or things that frighten people away from the industry. Alright, so I only have you for a couple more minutes. Incredible amount of opportunity.

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