Ep. 824: Robert Greifeld Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Robert Greifeld, an American businessman and was the chairman of Nasdaq, the largest electronic screen-based equity securities market in the United States. He served as CEO from 2003 to 2016 and was succeeded by Adena Friedman. Greifeld focused the NASDAQ-OMX mission on being the premier U.S equities market, leveraging NASDAQ-OMX's fundamental market structure advantage. He stepped down as Chairman in May 2017 to become Chairman of Virtu Financial.

The topic is his book Market Mover: Lessons from a Decade of Change at Nasdaq.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Robert looks back at more than a decade of transformational change that occurred on his watch in order to share his insights and lessons.

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Coval.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.4	Now for a guy who has cut his teeth on the markets in trading and investing five plus books,
0:41.4	I'm always going to have an affinity for those market-related conversations.
0:47.3	My guest today, Bob Grefeld, is the former CEO and chairman of NASDAQ.
0:55.0	Now, one doesn't have to know too much about how an exchange works,
0:59.2	but when you hear CEO of NASDAQ,
1:03.1	well, Bob was at the catbird seat of a lot.
1:07.5	He saw how technology impacted the exchange structure.
1:13.4	He saw the financial crisis.
1:16.0	He was right there living it, leading one of the most important exchanges in the world.
1:21.4	Today, Bob and I cover an assortment of issues ranging from WeWork to the financial crisis in Lehman Brothers, to the Facebook IPO,
1:30.1	to his view on China, a lot of different interesting perspectives from a guy who has sat at a
1:37.8	table that most of us don't get a chance to sit at. I love doing this podcast. I love getting the opportunity to get under
1:46.0	the skin, under the hood with people that are history makers, people that have had a chance to shape
1:55.6	the markets. I mean, in a big way, Bob's one of those guys, and I appreciate him taking the time to come on this show and share
2:04.4	with us all.
2:05.7	Without any further delay, let's jump right into my guest today, Bob, I'm pondering back to the 2002 time period. I remember at that point in time,
2:28.2	probably the NASDAQ was down 77%, something like that.
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