Ray Dalio

12 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 8 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 7, 2023 by Alex Kantrowitz · said 112 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Nov 7, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Ray Dalio personally made roughly $750 million during the 2008 financial crisis
“In particular, the 2008, 2009 crash where he himself pocketed something like seven hundred fifty million dollars.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 3:51 The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
Nov 7, 2023 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Ray Dalio predicted an economic crash virtually every year since the 1980s
“What we found was nonstop since the 19 eighties, Ray Dalio has been predicting economic calamity. Every, virtually every single year he has predicted a giant crash.”
Rob Copeland Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 6:17 The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
Nov 7, 2023 bearish
Assertion Supported
Coinbase trialed Dalio's Dot Collector software but dropped it due to unpopularity
“So he was successful with Coinbase. I don't know exactly how, but he got Coinbase to do a trial program where they brought the dot collector to Coinbase. And spoiler alert, the reaction among Coinbase employees was quite poor. And when reporters asked Coinbase…”
Rob Copeland Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 28:22 The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
Nov 7, 2023 negative
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Bridgewater forced employees to hit a daily quota of negative peer ratings
“What Bridgewater starts doing is it starts telling employees, you have to rate a certain number of incidents per day. You have to put in dots. And not only that, but a certain percentage of your dots must be negative.”
Rob Copeland Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 19:41 The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
Nov 7, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Ray Dalio pitched his employee rating software to Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey
“His great dream is that the principles and the dot collector would be adopted by other companies, and he went to other, to some of the most famous men in business. You know, he told people inside Bridgewater. He was talking to Elon Musk about doing this at Tes…”
Rob Copeland Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 27:24 The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
Nov 7, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Ray Dalio called Rob Copeland's bosses claiming he was a bitter reject
“He started attacking me, calling my bosses, saying I was a disaffected person who couldn't make the cut there.”
Rob Copeland Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 45:28 The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
Nov 7, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Bridgewater's radical transparency required recording every meeting for employees to review
“So for instance, any meeting at Bridgewater should be taped and anyone should be able to listen into it and to weigh in on it later.”
Rob Copeland Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 9:58 The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
Nov 7, 2023 negative
Opinion
Ray Dalio was the only Bridgewater employee who never humiliated himself
“There's only one person at Bridgewater who never really humiliated themselves to get the truth, and he's Ray Dalio.”
Rob Copeland Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 12:37 The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
Nov 7, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dalio launched a filmed probe into urine on a Bridgewater bathroom floor
“Ray is once he's once at the urinal in the bathroom and he looks down and he sees pee under the urinal... But Ray thinks something is truly wrong, and he literally sends an email out saying there's piss on the floor, and it's this huge investigation that is ta…”
Rob Copeland Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 13:20 The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
Nov 7, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Adam Grant became a paid consultant after praising Dalio's management methods
“Adam Grant, very, very famous organizational psychologist, Wharton professor, writes bestselling books. He goes in and he sees Ray Dalio and he witnesses this and he writes that it's based in it. He devotes a whole chapter of his book to it and he writes that …”
Rob Copeland Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 25:48 The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
Nov 7, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Bridgewater spent over $100 million developing Dalio's employee rating software
“So this was Ray's great dream, and he talked about it endlessly inside Bridgewater, and he, they spent more than a hundred million dollars on this technology.”
Rob Copeland Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 27:16 The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
Nov 7, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Internal HR memos warned Ray Dalio of continuous employee fear at Bridgewater
“I went and I got the internal HR emails. I got their own memos, people telling Ray, this is a self Defeating loop. That people are scared that at any moment they may be fired. And the real scary thing for me about Ray Dalio and Bridgewater is that he knew, he …”
Rob Copeland Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 24:31 The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
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