Information Asymmetry
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
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6 statements about Information Asymmetry, every show
Pankaj Rai: Trading Edge Now Lies in Data Synthesis, Not Information Asymmetry
“In the past, it was all about information asymmetry. Even in the stock market, someone got some information, someone else. Nowadays, that information asymmetry is gone with the advent or anything. So I think having a better sense of the market and you can call…”
Kunal Shah: All great companies possess unfair information asymmetry
“To me, wealth is nothing but information asymmetry. All the best companies in the world have unfair information asymmetry.”
Kaufer: Vacations suffer from information asymmetry because they cannot be returned
“There was huge information asymmetry. It was an incredibly important purchase, this, a vacation. It was a big purchase in your annual budget. I, you couldn't return it like, Hey, I bought a TV. I don't like it. I'm returning it.”
Shah: Fast-growing tech companies succeed by maintaining information asymmetry
“All the tech companies that are disproportionately growing in wealth and net worth and revenues are also the ones which has more information asymmetry or they are more Maxwell demon-like”
Shah: Apple privacy changes hurt social media by reducing information asymmetry
“A lot of social media stock market tanked and revenue tanked when Apple announced a way to not be able to keep more information asymmetry, and boom, you can't predict many things about people, and therefore your revenue
Well, tank because you can't predict th…”
Simkin: Traders should not back limited opinions against informed counterparties
“Our approach is to recognize that we are often on the bad end of informational asymmetry that other people who are looking to trade in the markets frequently know more than we do. And as a result, we don't want to back our own limited opinion against a more in…”