Duke
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Cameo seeded initial talent through founders' Duke and USC networks
“So we relied on kind of personal relationships, friends and family that we knew. Like I went to Duke and as did Devin and a lot of our friends were, you know, Former NBA, like, future NBA players, and NFL players, and Martin was an athlete at USC, so, you know…”
MIT and Duke Have Been More Active With Emerging Managers Than Yale
“Other organizations, like MIT under Seth Alexander and Duke under Neil Triplett, have been more active in the emerging manager space in recent years.”
Groarke: Duke and SCE use live AI for customer EV detection
“So that non-intrusive load monitoring, using external data, identifying consumption, and selling new products and services is happening now. And that's live at utilities, right? Just like the wildfire example there's live at Duke and Southern California Edison…”
Williams: UATX Is the First Major New University Effort Since Stanford and Duke
“There's so much wealth in this country. It's actually kind of amazing that this is the first time someone in a while since Stanford or Duke or something that somebody ambitiously is trying to start a new.”
Mike Posner Hit Number One by Growth Hacking iTunes U
“He released his song on iTunes U because he was in school. So he could only somebody, only a student or professor could put content on iTunes U, which was like the subsection of iTunes. And because most of the things that go up there are like extremely academi…”
Diamond: Tracking daily personal annoyances reveals billion-dollar business opportunities
“If you want to come up with a billion dollar idea, literally just go through the day and just make note of everything that gets in your nerves. When you get up, you just go a bunch of day, whatever it is, if it gets in your nerves, there's probably a huge oppo…”
Triplett: Past returns are not a major driver in DUMAC manager selection
“Really returns aren't a big driver of our decision-making process. We want the best people in the portfolio working for Duke, and that's what we try to find.”
Wertheim: Most sports bettors will lose; only quantitative models will win
“People that place bets based on emotion are going to get burned. I think we're going to have a lot of conspiracy theories. I think there are going to be very few winners, and I think like Investing in general. I think there are going to be winners that are goi…”
Early Burt's Bees Used a Mashed Potato Mixer and Cement Mixer
“We were making one of our products in a big mixer that Duke had in its cafeteria for mashed potatoes. And, ah, we had a bath salt that we were making in a cement mixer.”
Spitz: Most Mid-1980s Endowments Kept Conservative, Simple Portfolios
“In general, I think endowment portfolios were still relatively conservative and relatively simple in their structure. Now, Harvard had obviously evolved. Yale was beginning to evolve. Notre Dame and Duke and some others were starting down that path, but it was…”