CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. Taking a hefty fee mitigates the investment bank’s risk by insulating it from the stock’s actual performance in the market. Source: Getty.

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CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

We looked at the different stages in bringing a product to market, from manufacturing to delivery, and how companies are using AI-enabled automation — including facial recognition, demand forecasting, and computer vision-based robots — to enhance each of these stages. Manufacturing: Bringing a product to market.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. Four years later, in 2002, eBay announced that it would buy PayPal for $1.5 But it would be over the next four years that eBay would find itself increasingly pulled into a riptide of changing market dynamics. In September of that year, eBay went public.

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Banking 2020

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Animation aside, that would probably be Moneyball , an absorbing analysis of the moves made by Oakland As manager Billy Beane to rely more on technology-driven data than old-school scouting to put together his 2002 roster. To be clear, it’s not as if the regulatory bodies have kept their hands completely off this market.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Market volatility. Brown, instead of managers getting stock options or guaranteed bonuses, every manager got paid $7,800 a year (the equivalent of about $14,500 today), plus “a designated percentage of the profits of the company after these are reduced by a charge for capital employed.”. It had a great brand. Stock ownership.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 16, 2020

The pull-back was swift and crushing with the Nasdaq falling 78% from its peak in March 2000 to the low point in Oct 2002 (a 2.5 And it took the rest of the decade for the capital to gravitate to all the good ideas. Concentrate on markets you can serve digitally. Projects were halted. 2024+ Digital-only era. –

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2017

With the emergence of industry-specific AI, the effects of automation — initially felt in manufacturing — are seeping into retail sales, restaurants, e-commerce, marketing, and even software development. Outsize impact on the labor markets. The outsize impacts on the labor markets. How corporations are harnessing automation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

Walmart has been trialing this in a couple of markets with Deliv, and is now ready to expand its efforts on a national basis with partners that have a density of drivers to serve its hundred million consumers. Backing out that non-retail dimension of the business closes the market cap gap a bit.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 with a market cap of $12 million, down from $4 billion just a decade before in 2002 — the year that Netflix IPO’d. A year and $2 million in seed capital later, Hastings and a partner founded Netflix. Netflix turned that opportunity into the $42 billion business that it is today.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The online bookseller didn’t turn a profit for six years — today, it’s the second publicly traded company ever to hit a $1T market cap. 2002: Build your business on your fixed costs. The longer a company is able to retain its customers, the less it needs to spend on acquisition or marketing. Just execute.

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