Four Quants

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[Four Quants @FourQuants]

Why do boards with qualified and experienced professionals fail in such spectacular fashion?

Are they not aware of what's coming? In denial? Or dysfunctional?

Apparently, the issue is more common than you would think..

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

Why do Board risk committees at large institutions fail in such spectacular fashion every few years?

Are these failures specific to banking or is this a common theme that cuts across sectors?

Remember the Boeing 737 Max crisis?

The failure chain is not limited to just finance.

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

Just incase if you were looking for an easy to find and share reference list of scale multiple video series we did over the last 7 days.

Total travel time. 50 minutes including the 2x60 second clips.

Enjoy.
https://t.co/0FWpHOi01O

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

Intelligent Insights in Excel.
Power application workshop.
Real cases. Real Analysis.

Karachi. Live. 2 days.
Instructor led.
1st + 2nd Dec '22.

Three applications:
1) Rate making motor insurance.
2) Deposit Behavioral study for bank deposits.
3) TECL for Credit Portfolios.

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

All episodes and teasers from Pakistan dataset and valuation outlook lecture in one convenient🧵

Ep. One. FX + Interest Rate outlook and Founder recommendations. 29 minutes.

What would '22-'23 look like for your valuation models? Not pretty.
https://t.co/0mbIQRKDi1

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

I feel lucky today.

18 hour flash sale on Founder Puzzles digital and print edition.

Expires tomorrow morning at 10 am.

Only on @GetChikoo.
47% off on digital.
24% on print edition.

https://t.co/V0Z3xGdefk

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

At a recent event had a short discussion on what is innovation.

Marginally cheaper, leaner, meaner, faster is not always innovative.

Good test or rule of thumb?

Quantify and measure real impact.

If 3-5-10x compared to status quo, on the right path.

If not, re-assess.

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

Since I am already up and rendering. 58 second teaser from Ep IV.

On Pakistan's changing economic complexity profile over 20 years.

Only for your @PutOption since we are both up on 2 different sides of the planet.

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

Episode III. Unlike our first 2 episodes, we have intentionally kept Ep III short.

7 min 41 seconds.

You don't need a PhD in Finance to listen, understand or connect the dots.

The generational shift in education is Pakistan's investment thesis.
https://t.co/LDhreT1psq

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

Valuation and the Pakistan dataset conversation. Episode II.

Sizing the urban middle class in Pakistan. 32 minutes.

First 3 minutes are carried over valuation discussion for context and background.

Feedback is a gift.
https://t.co/uqJj5ipYcT

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

A few requests for recording of Valuation and Pakistan data set session we ran at #92Disrupt in Karachi this Sunday.

Recorded Ep.1 this morning. Covers the first theme - rate outlook for '22-23 for local tech founders.

Drops tonight at 9 pm sharp. 3 more to follow over 7 days.

[Four Quants @FourQuants]

Istanbul. Bosporus. Sunrise. What more could one ask for?

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

The sea and sunrise have always helped me heal.
I hope they will help you heal too.

Bosporus sunrise, shot with @oneplus captures 7 magical moods of the ancient passage between seas.

Kids picked the score. I just held the phone. And yes those are sea gulls in the background.

[Four Quants @FourQuants]

Founder Puzzles, 2nd Edition. Pre-order form for print and digital editions is now live at https://t.co/GAzmwkIQRw

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

It is time. Please comment and vote for your choice of covers for Founder Puzzles, 2nd Edition.

1. Orange title, white background
2. Grey title, white background
3. White title, black background with stamp
4. White title, black background no stamp.

Vote using numbers 1 to 4.

[Four Quants @FourQuants]

Pakistan's retail basket puzzle.

A deep dive with 2021 dataset by @rebootdude.

If you needed TAM for 12 retail categories, look no further.

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

Outside of education and rent, what does urban Pakistan spends its retail $ on?

This question got inside my head in Dec and wouldn't let me rest tell I had a picture.

Here is a first pass (Fig in $ billions) after 6 weeks of research.

Rip it apart. Feedback is a gift.

[Four Quants @FourQuants]

Ever wondered or thought about a better algo for filtering and selecting ideas?

Take a look at scale multiples via @rebootdude

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

Scale multiples. A tool for filtering ideas and investments.

Given no shortage of ideas, how do you select between businesses as an investor/founder?

Inspired by my own choices and questions around what if I had picked a different idea?

Here is the framework:

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

Notes from this weekend's Venture Capital's class at @ibakarachi.

8 lessons to remember as a venture investor or fund manager.

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

Valuation for Startups. Episode IV. Full length, 10 minute edition.

It took us 4 years from the point we decided to sell to exit.

Here are 8 lessons from that journey that I hope will save you heartache, time and frustration as a founder.
https://t.co/VsAyrtFF1y

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

Valuations for startups. Episode IV.

The 2:20 edition. So this was really hard.

We made a bet at office that I won't be able to fit in all this within the 2:20 template. They were right.

A short, aggressively edited, 140 second monologue on valuations and price for founders

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

Registrations now open.

Valuations for Founders.
US$ 750 per person.
20th and 21st Nov.
4:30pm to 7:30 pm.
GMT + 5.

For Founders. By Founders.
https://t.co/3IYCb9Hp7l

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

How do you move from a simple model to a more complex models? How do sub models fit?

We bring in 2 new candidates.

Model II takes our simple model and extends it.

Model III which goes psycho on sub models.

@qam_f thank you for the questions.

Ask away every one.

[Jawwad Farid @rebootdude]

Meet a simple model.

The next multipart episode from Zen of Financial Modeling.

Based on clarification questions on the 2:20 clip some of you asked me.

The question.

What does a simple model look like to you?

Answered in Part I. In 2:20 format. With a simple example.