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Sep 1, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read Read on X
1/ Thoughts on portfolio management from @peterthiel
2/ “...every single company in a good venture portfolio must have the potential to succeed at vast scale”
3/ “If you focus on diversification instead of single-minded pursuit of the very few companies that can become overwhelmingly valuable, you’ll miss those rare companies in the first place”
4/ Not casting the net wide enough reduces the odds of catching a big one

Cast the net too wide and returns from the big one will be diluted

Where is your sweet spot?

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Jul 31, 2022
1/ Recent post led to DMs about how a stint as a gatekeeper influenced my investment approach.

Having some of the greatest investors of a generation open their playbooks was an education money can’t buy.

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This was it.

May 11, 1965.

The New York Times reports the inconspicuous birth of perhaps the greatest wealth creation story of all time. $BRK
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1/ Variety of resources on long-duration growth:

Wish I appreciated earlier that a mispriced stock can also be a fantastic business priced like an average (or even above average) business.
3/ @InvestLikeBest podcast with John Harris at Sequoia discussing how people and culture can create positive surprises:

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Re-read “100 Baggers” by @chriswmayer and an early theme is to “buy well”.

Investors emphasize valuation which is part, but not all, that buying well entails.

This is what the world was like during my solid buys; for the best buys multiple factors were in play.
2/ Obvious, but the market was down. As a result headlines were pessimistic and investors were focused on macro issues.

The proverbial baby had been thrown out with the bath water.
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Investors were losing their patience which created a coiled spring. Once the company’s investments paid off profits grew as did the valuation multiples.
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Jan 23, 2021
1/ There are lots of quality companies, but few are what @nntaleb calls antifragile.

Imagine a box. When shaken the contents are not only protected but grow stronger. Antifragile businesses benefit from volatility.

I want to own these.
2/ What are the characteristics of an anti-fragile business?
3/ It is appropriately financed. It can be levered but debt must be structured in a way that it can’t be called at inopportune times.

Long maturities and non-recourse debt create layers of protection.
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Sep 23, 2020
1/ Bezos wasn’t speaking of investment managers here but may as well have been.
2/ “Good process serves you so you can serve customers. But if you’re not watchful, the process can become the thing.”
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