stupandaus

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by stupandaus 4y ago
yes, there are many factors that can influence a valuation. and in different price ranges, different factors will have different weights. since the price is not $0 today and is relatively close to the potential transaction price, the % like
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by stupandaus 4y ago
this is incorrect. the price going up is a reflection of the market's believe about the % likelihood of a deal. for example at market close of $45.08, the market is betting there is a $45.08/$54.20 = 83% chance that this transacti
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by stupandaus 5y ago
Not sure if you are misremembering the Phil Ivey edge sorting case [1] or if you are thinking of another story. Notable in this case that the casinos won in the end. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ivey#Edge-sort
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by stupandaus 6y ago
The US' unemployment rate was much, much lower than many western European unemployment rates prior to coronavirus, so it doesn't make sense to compare the absolute number here - instead you should be comparing relative figures. Th
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by stupandaus 6y ago
Building on my analysis from last week: 1. This week's 6.6M new jobless claims represents ~4% of the estimated ~160-165M US Workforce. 2. This is incremental to the 3.3M new jobless claims filed week ending 3/21, totaling ~10M tot
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by stupandaus 6y ago
Building on my analysis from last week: 1. This week's 6.6M jobless claims represents ~4% of the estimated ~160-165M US Workforce. 2. This is incremental to the 3.3M jobless claims filed week ending 3/21, totaling ~10M total joble
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by stupandaus 6y ago
A few things to note: 1. These figures are only new claims as of 3/21, so the numbers will get worse. 2. This is ~2% of the estimated ~160-165M US Workforce. 3. This is nearly 5x (!) the prior record of 671K new jobless claims from 198
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by stupandaus 7y ago
This is a line in "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" (Guy Ritchie film)! Was this a scam in the real world as well??
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by stupandaus 8y ago
The writer made a pretty common finance misunderstanding mistake here: "That may change soon: Spotify bought Gimlet Media, a premium podcast studio, and Anchor, a podcast hosting platform, for $340 million earlier this month. That&#x27
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by stupandaus 8y ago
This comment fundamentally misunderstands what insider trading is. There is no such thing as "insider trading" in private equity - insider trading by necessity is gaining an unfair advantage via non-public information. Private equ
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by stupandaus 9y ago
To answer your question, the debt holders take precedence over the equity holders like Bain Capital, and generally being an equity holder and having your equity stake wiped to $0 is not a good outcome for a private equity firm. Bain does ha
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by stupandaus 9y ago
These are really great use cases. That said, the article is totally missing the fact that these labs are aggressively developing alternatives to the Cas9 protein to dance around the ongoing CRISPR patent battle...
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by stupandaus 10y ago
An enterprising guy named Ali Hamed is pursuing this model with coventure in NYC!
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by stupandaus 10y ago
The final results are public information via UTIMCO, so no backdoor calculations are necessary: https://www.scribd.com/doc/277150709/UTIMCO-PrivateMarkets UTIMCO invested $22.25m and was returned $280m in cash wit
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Open Letter to Uber from Uber Driver's Network(medium.com)
2 points by stupandaus 11y ago|0 comments
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by stupandaus 11y ago
Really interesting take on energy, especially relative to over-concentration in cleantech that other investors bought into at the time
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by stupandaus 11y ago
There have been multiple waves of Chinese immigration to the US, with different concentrations of Mandarin vs. Cantonese speakers, education level, affluence, etc. Thus, there tends to be major differences between China Towns in different m
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by stupandaus 11y ago
I made $1.6148008835081285e+21 LOL The right axis scaling leaks a lot of future info...
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by stupandaus 11y ago
Betfair if you put money in the UK.
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by stupandaus 11y ago
The real reason the Greece deal matters, is the rest of the EU are looking at it as a proxy for what will happen to Spain and Italy next. These two make up a much larger proportion of the EU GDP, and are facing their own major debt crises.
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CRISPR – The Future of Synthetic Biology(luxcapital.com)
1 points by stupandaus 11y ago|0 comments
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Inside the Chinese Bitcoin Mine That's Making $1.5M a Month(motherboard.vice.com)
7 points by stupandaus 12y ago|2 comments
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by stupandaus 12y ago
What's the medical consensus on Cold-EEZE?
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by stupandaus 12y ago
Brainteasers are somewhat common in consulting interviews (at the undergraduate level). The idea behind giving brainteasers is more to see how you would structure and break down a problem, and whether you can communicate your structure and
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by stupandaus 12y ago
Anyone have recommendations for interesting entries?
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by stupandaus 12y ago
A bit off topic from your post, but I'm curious how far your Mandarin studies took you. Did you ever make any headway into Business Chinese and/or do you know of any good resources for that? I'm a native bilingual Mandarin&#x
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by stupandaus 12y ago
While I do agree it is horrible, humans are definitely not the only mammals that commit suicide.
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The Other B-word(online.wsj.com)
1 points by stupandaus 13y ago|0 comments
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by stupandaus 13y ago
The idea of having to go through security everyday for free meals sounds unpalatable.
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by stupandaus 13y ago
For those curious, Yún means cloud (雲/云 in traditional/simplified Chinese).

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