Bridgewater Associates
also referred to as: bridgewater
15 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 11, 2017 by Ray Dalio · said 40 times in 8 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shane Parrish (24), Daniel Kahneman (6), Jeff Hunter (4), Ray Dalio (2), Morgan Housel (2), Naval Ravikant (1), Aaron Dignan (1)
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2025 3 mentions in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 12 mentions in 1 episode
2019 3 mentions in 1 episode
2018 2 mentions in 1 episode
2017 17 mentions in 2 episodes 9 per episode
2016 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Bridgewater Associates, oldest first
Oct 11, 2017
Bridgewater records nearly all internal meetings and discussions
“All discussions, meetings are taped and pretty much unless it's an ultra personal matter. We don't do that unless it's something proprietary. We don't do that, but when we're encountering other things most things, we let people see things, and the reason is if…”
Oct 11, 2017 neutral
Dalio punched his boss on New Year's Eve while drunk
“He and I were drunk on New Year's Eve, and yeah, you know, and we had we had this playful, fun challenging relationships, and I decked him, and he then crashed the car when he went home, and his wife chewed him out, and I figured that I was going to lose my jo…”
Oct 11, 2017 neutral
Oct 11, 2017
Oct 11, 2017 neutral
Dalio: College hires and experienced hires succeed equally at Bridgewater
“The people who come directly from school are tend to be a little bit more arrogant, know a little bit less, and go through a transformation that's pretty much easier. They're more adaptable. So that's why they're prone to like it, but it, but also depending on…”
Oct 11, 2017
Oct 11, 2017 positive
Oct 11, 2017 positive
Bridgewater anticipated the 2008 financial crisis by studying the 1930s
“The only reason we were able to anticipate it and benefit from it is because it, we felt that it was necessary to understand what had happened in the thirties and what happened before, because the same things happen over and over again.”
Oct 11, 2017 negative
Dalio: Neither autocratic nor democratic decision-making works well in organizations
“The problem that most people have at that point is that either there is an autocratic decision maker or a democratic decision maker. Neither of those work well. The autocratic decision maker is just the guy who's the boss who says, okay, well, now I'm going to…”
Oct 11, 2017 positive
Oct 11, 2017
Oct 11, 2017 neutral
Oct 11, 2017
Dalio: Historical market patterns repeat and can be codified into algorithms
“Everything happens over and over again. Right? Everything I, we think of this as, everything's another one of those. So by being able to look at history and make the connections and examine how the mechanics of the cause-effect relationships are, That's what w…”
Oct 11, 2017 bullish
Jan 21, 2020
Recurring employee delivery failures always stem from manager communication flaws
“If you, if you're in a situation Where you're like, you know, I've talked to the, I keep talking to my employees, and they keep not getting what I'm saying, and they keep, ah, you know, messing up and not delivering on time. A, that's not about them, that's ab…”