Aswath Damodaran on Sugar Daddies, The Magnificent Seven & The Art of Selling Stocks | #558
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Today’s returning guest is Aswath Damodaran, a professor at NYU, where he teaches corporate finance and equity valuation.
In today’s episode, Professor Damodaran delves into the intricacies of investing and the lifecycle of companies. He also covers the challenges of valuation in a changing economy, the trend of buybacks versus dividends, and the evolving role of AI in finance.
Be sure to stick around to hear him critique ESG investing and share insights on the broken media landscape.
(1:55 ) Mag7 stocks
(7:28 ) Corporate life cycle
(9:47 ) Factors influencing startup success & characteristics of mature companies
(24:41 ) Capital allocation
(26:52 ) The IPO landscape
(34:05 ) AI in the investment process
(39:12 ) OpenAI's corporate structure
(45:48 ) ESG & the media landscape
(50:24 ) Sports economics
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Past guests include Ed Thorp, Richard Thaler, Jeremy Grantham, Joel Greenblatt, Campbell Harvey, Ivy Zelman, Kathryn Kaminski, Jason Calacanis, Whitney Baker, Aswath Damodaran, Howard Marks, Tom Barton, and many more.
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