There’s Something About Money!

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Yes, I am riffing again (see There is Something About Mass where I discussed Higgs and Symmetry and Quantum Field Theory) on:

There’s Something About Mary is a 1998 American romantic comedy film. It had box office revenues of nearly $370 million (on a budget of $23 million).

Let me begin with an email I received first thing this morning from my colleagues at IIT-Madras related to Quantum Money (for an approachable article, see this 2012 Survey) that is the 2024 Tayur Challenge with an exciting update that we have a working physical system!

And now to the Real World of Banks and Money, different from my Academic Quantum

La La Land is a 2016 American musical romantic comedy-drama. The film emerged as a major commercial success, grossing $472 million worldwide on a budget of $30 million. The film also received a record-tying fourteen nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, winning in six categories including Best Director and Best Actress.

I first heard the name US Bank in 2013 when SAP acquired SmartOps (also see Darden Case, SmartOps Corporation: Forging Smart Alliances, for background and history) and used them to wire the money to all of our shareholders.

Little did I think then that (announced earlier this afternoon and picked up by WSJ!) after all these years:

U.S. Bancorp Names Gunjan Kedia CEO, Succeeding Andy Cecere

Curiously, American Banker appears prescient, as it noted in its November/December 2024 issue titled 25 People Who Will Change Banking in 2025:

From Donald Trump to Gunjan Kedia, Jerome Powell to Jamie Dimon, here are the politicians, bankers, regulators, tech execs, lobbyists and lawyers who will impact the industry this year (plus Taylor Swift).

Writing this post brought back many memories. Here is an example of SAP-SmartOps customer story (from Celestica, by Luciano Miranda, now at Medtronic, also a SmartOps customer, based in Minneapolis, like Polaris…Oh, I could go on!)

Let me close with another curious coincidence. My first (and the only one so far) visit to Darden – to discuss the SmartOps Case in person in Ron Wilcox’s class and make video clips for the companion Teaching Note – was in April 2011. My next visit to Darden, scheduled last Summer, is, wait for it, in April 2025.

 

1 comment

  1. Wow!! Congratulations Gunjan again!!

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