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One investing advice to my younger self
My biggest regret as an investor is that I didn’t read the shareholder letters of Warren Buffett and didn’t watch the annual meetings of Berkshire Hathaway earlier. I learned so much from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger and would have not committed many of the mistakes I did. But I believe the most important lesson I learned from them is on how to choose the best leaders to manage your money. They are known to have made deals without any due diligence and just a handshake b
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Jul 271 min read


The best in the world or nothing.
I don't do many things. But the things I do, I aim to be the best in the world at. This has inadvertently affected the businesses I choose to buy and own. I recently read Jim Collins' Good to Great, where he shows how eleven companies managed to go from good to great and the similarities they had between them. I'm not going to spoil the book for you but there's an idea that made me think about the businesses I invest in, the hedgehog concept. It was not the first time I heard
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Jul 222 min read


I haven't been that bullish on an investment since GameStop in 2020
In September 2019, I invested in GameStop. The stock went down 60% in 2020, and I bought more shares. In January 2021, I sold with an average profits of 3,300%. GameStop is the investment of a lifetime. There won't be anything like it again. The reason why it worked was because of the massive risk-reward asymmetry. The company was trading below its net cash value, it had repurchased 35% of shares outstanding in a single quarter with nearly 100% of shares short, and a new cons
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Jun 43 min read


Wise under investigation for Anti-Money Laundering non-compliance
An article from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals that Wise has been under investigation by prosecutors in Belgium for non-compliance of half a billion euros of suspicious transactions. This is a definitely a big headline, which caused the stock price to drop over 15% today, the worst day for the stock since the IPO in 2021. Wise has already responded. There are things we need to look at as owners of Wise: The investigation itself The likely outcomes This is spec
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Jun 14 min read
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