Category: Research – Brandon
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Dance Like It’s 1970, Baby
Today we’ve got a guest post from Srivatsan “Sri” Prakash. Sri is the 18-year-old host of the Market Champions podcast dedicated to interviewing the best and the brightest in finance and economics. His thoughts can be found on Twitter @SrivatsPrakash. Please enjoy … Everyone’s comparing today’s inflation to the type experienced in the 1970s. The…
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3 Complexity, Chaos and Markets
Brandon here. Today we’ve got a guest post from Srivatsan “Sri” Prakash. Sri is the 18-year-old Host of the Market Champions podcast dedicated to interviewing the best and the brightest in finance and economics, His thoughts can be found on Twitter @SrivatsPrakash. Anyways, before dive into Sri’s piece, I want to let you know about the Macro…
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3 Big Things: Short Selling 101 w/ Robert Prather
“It’s amazing how many long-only investors fail to actually read things like the footnotes, disclosures, etc. This is stuff that reveals important things about the business that go mostly unnoticed. And that’s our opportunity.” Robert Prather is an Investment Analyst and the founder of Vision Research. Vision Research is a Fundamental Research shop dedicated to finding…
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3 Big Things: How To Evaluate Management w/ Ben Claremon
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned from interviewing 25+ CEOs and operators, it’s this: culture, incentives, and management teams really matter.” Ben Claremon is the portfolio manager at Cove Street Capital and hosts one of my favorite investing podcasts, The Compounders Podcast (listen here). Ben spends his time reading, thinking, interviewing, and investing in the…
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Value Hive: 3 Big Things with Alex Morris (TSOH_Investing)
“The reason I love studying retail businesses is because it’s so graspable. If you understand very basic business concepts, you can wrap your mind around how these companies can build very strong, very profitable businesses over time. And it all starts with simple unit economics.” Alex Morris is one of my favorite writers and Twitterers…
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Value Hive: 3 Big Things with Jay Singh III
“The SPAC landscape provides some of the greatest short opportunities we’ve ever seen in markets.” I can’t think of a better time to uncover and invest in special situations than in today’s market. We’re seeing micro-cap stocks trading at less-than cash and de-SPAC companies with actual earnings trading like a Chamath IPO. My latest podcast guest, Jay…
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My Three Favorite Crowdsourced Micro-Cap Investment Ideas
In late May, I took to Twitter to crowdsource my followers’ favorite micro-cap ideas.I received a ton of great feedback with dozens of company-specific responses.I also created a Google Sheet with all the names mentioned in the thread, which you can find here.This short post reviews my Top 3 Favorite Ideas from that tweet. Idea…
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The Bill Gurley Chronicles: VCs, Marketplaces, and Early-Stage Investing
What if there was a way to distill all the knowledge that someone’s written over the last 25 years into one, easy-to-read document?And what if that person was a famous venture capital investor known for betting big on companies like Uber, Snapchat, Twitter, Discord, Dropbox, Instagram, and Zillow (to name a few)? Well, that’s what I’ve…
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Christensen, Emerson, and Thiel Walk Into A Bar …
One of the benefits of Macro Ops is our ability to go anywhere, invest in nearly anything we can understand, and stack edges to develop a truly differentiated outlook on markets. Stacking edges comes in lots of flavors. There’s technical edges, analytical edges, personality edges, and behavioral edges. Market conditions like these – where stocks can’t not…
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Value Hive: 3 Big Things with Peter Mantas
“What we’re seeing in biotech is the equivalent of negative oil prices.” Last week we introduced a new mini-essay series called “Value Hive: 3 Big Things” where we dissected my conversation with Matthew Sweeney (Laughing Water Capital). Read it here if you missed it. 3 Big Things distills all my podcast episodes into bite-sized mini-essays. Each piece…