The way people consume financial services is changing, and there's a lot of excitement around that. We are very disciplined in saying, this the business model work? It's great to have revenues, but are the unit economics sound? And when they hit some scale, do they make money? So we look through that lens very carefully, and i take, without getting into specific names, some companies we think have very good unit economics,. Some things we scratch our heads, and then we say, ok, well, for the things we think worthy unit economics are good, what’s the price we have to pay? The companies need to grow at a high rate for a long time to
Steven Begleiter is a Managing Director of Flexpoint Ford. Prior to joining Flexpoint Ford in 2008, Steve was a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns & Co. He is also a professional Poker player who claimed the 6th place in World Series of Poker 2009, winning $1.59M Show Notes:
- Culture at Bear Stearns
- The liquidity crisis that ended Bear Stearns
- Evolution of Financial Services
- Importance of having a ‘thesis’ for your investments
- The Rise of Private Equity
- Where is PE headed to?
- Investing lessons from a Poker career
- Role of luck in life and Poker
- Psychology at the poker table
- How micro-expressions can give your game away
- Historical perspective to the Russia-Ukraine crisis
- Importance of reading military history