Excellent compilation of highlights from Nicholas Sleep's Investor letters (generally hard to find) by @mastersinvest👏 Some great lessons for long-term investors.
Topics⬇️
Think Long Term
Ignore the Noise
Psychological Advantages
Focus on the Business
Founders & Management
Business Models & Customer Relationships
Scale Economics Shared
Compounding Machines
Position Sizing & Diversification
Inaction
The Value in Mistakes
Learning & Patience
I've picked 10 Founder CEOs from some wonderful Co.'s in my Portfolio. How many of them can you identify (w/o Googling😀). Mix of easy/hard ones to keep it interesting.
Intentionally left out Bezos, Zuck, Benioff, Dorsey, Lutke etc.
Answers at the end.
My fav pts compiled from the above article. Part1 ⬇️
1⃣ $OKTA Okta : A unit used in meteorology to measure cloud cover. ☁️
2⃣ $SNOW Snowflake : Snowflakes are “born in the cloud”. Data warehouse built from the ground up for the cloud.🌨️
3⃣ $SHOP Shopify : Shop(ping) + (Simpl)ify 🛍️✅
4⃣ $VEEV Veeva : Veeva, a variant of the Latin word viva which means “to live,” attests to the company's singular commitment to the Life sciences industry.❤️
"Over decades, a stock will earn a similar return as the business earns. A basket of businesses with sustainable high growth rates have stocks that compound at a similar rate. And selling early can be costly."