Tag: Investing
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Warren Buffett has seen a lot of crazes in his 82 years investing. The Nifty Fifty, the dotcom bust, and the 2008 crisis. Through it all, he kept doing the same thing: buying great businesses at reasonable prices. Today, I dug into the sixth hour of Berkshire’s recent annual meeting.…
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An auditorium full of med students jump to their feet, erupting in cheers. They just found out they’re going to school for free. This was the scene at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York in February (you can see the video and news story here). The source…
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“You’re entering the best world that’s ever existed…” Warren Buffett Warren sits on stage, flanked by men he respects and loves working with. From that perch, he gives out priceless advice on investing and life. Today, I dug into the third hour of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. Warren tells…
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“Warren, if people weren’t so often wrong, we wouldn’t be so rich.” Charlie Munger I’ve always wanted to watch the whole Berkshire annual meeting. This year, I’m finally doing it, and I’m sharing everything I learned with you guys! This will be a 5 part series going throughout this week.…
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Founders might have to do 50 meetings to get a check. But you can make those meetings 10X better and up your odds of raising money by changing how you answer investor questions. Picture Francis sitting on Zoom. I have a list of 8 questions I want to ask the…
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Marine special forces are testing robot dogs armed with rifles. A human still makes the decision to fire — for now. The robot that Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is using comes from a company called Ghost Robotics, according to The War Zone. The robots are armed with rifles…
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Antonio Garcia Martinez sold his startup for $10 million to Twitter just a year after founding. Then at Facebook, he was part of the rise of the most successful startup in the last 20 years. This week, I dug into Chaos Monkeys, his inside story of how startupland really works.…
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At age 29, Charlie Munger’s marriage was falling apart and his son was dying of leukemia. “A friend remembers that Charlie would visit his dying son in the hospital and then walk the streets of Pasadena crying.” I cannot imagine anything worse. And yet, Munger came back from it. He…
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I recently spoke with a reader of this blog. He noticed something strange about a lot of the other articles in his inbox. “Most of the newsletters I get seem to be written by AI,” he explained. He’s probably right! But I never, ever use AI to write this blog.…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Finance, Investing, Money, Startups, Venture Capital, Writing+
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When I first moved to New Jersey in 2014, I weighed 40 pounds more than I do today. I also had a lot less money than I do now. One of the key ways I got from there to here was learning how to cook. Gradually, I picked up the…
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