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Woke Data

Woke Data

By: Free Float Media
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ESG. Sustainability. Ratings. Scores. Numbers. Totally. Confusing. We live and breath the space between financial data, financial adjacent data, and the real world. Ari was an engineer designing airplane engine, Matt was an ESG analyst building ratings and analytics. Together, they’ll make sustainability data make sense. One woke number at a time.

2019-2021, Free Float Media Economics Personal Finance Politics & Government
Episodes
  • Where do directors go when their company goes bankrupt?

    Where do directors go when their company goes bankrupt?
    Dec 9 2021

    9 is the number this week! Nine is the number of directors on the board of Six Flags when it went bankrupt in 2009. If you ever wondered what happens to a few chums take over a board for a company with a business they know nothing about and it fails, don't worry - they fail up. How Dan Snyder, Mark Shapiro, Dwight Shar, and even Harvey Weinstein are a cautionary tale of groupthink and chummy boards!
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    14 mins
  • Should ESG ratings agree with each other?

    Should ESG ratings agree with each other?
    Dec 1 2021

    No! The number of the week: 36! That's the number of sell side analysts covering Tesla, with basically all of them disagreeing. Why do we hold ESG ratings to a different standard than sell side analyst recommendations? It's pretty simple: because we're obsessed with what we know (and terrified of what we don't).
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    8 mins
  • Is crypto the weapon that could end root causes of poverty?

    Is crypto the weapon that could end root causes of poverty?
    Nov 24 2021

    15,000! people pooled crypto into ConstitutionDAO in an effort to win a first-edition copy of the Constitution auctioned at Sotheby’s last week! While the headlines talked about using crypto to buy the Constitution and the drama of the bidding war, the real story to Ari the Data Queen was the bizarre nature of “crypto coops” and the power of smart contracts! Can we solve poverty with blockchain IDs, smart property rights, and smart trade?
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    12 mins
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