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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Freshman Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.
- Texas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my business investing, you are buying a stock, and someone else is selling the stock. Right there, that's like a debate. Is the stock going up, or is it going to go down?
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my undergraduate, I've written a thesis that was in the government department, but largely, it turned out almost an economic type of thesis. And I was very interested in that, and I wanted to go get a Ph.D. in Economics.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked in investment banking for two years. I was in a program where they kind of just owned you. And you - I didn't realize that I've signed up for that, which was one of the problems. I didn't know anybody who'd done this.
- Least
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it's a very similar skillset.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
For one thing, Greenlight only hires nice people. By that, I don't mean that we avoid hiring jerks. I mean we actively look to hire people who are nice.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an industry that celebrates personal sacrifice as a symbol of commitment, you might not consider 'making sure everyone gets home for dinner' to be a mark of success, but creating and maintaining that culture is one of the things I'm most proud of.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, I wasn't expecting Wall Street to be a laid-back place. I was prepared for hard work. Sadly, much of the work the new guys were asked to do and the insane hours we were expected to keep had little to do with making the bank more productive. It felt more like hazing.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are nice people, and they also made a point to have dinner as a family every night.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The enthusiasm for Tesla and other bubble-basket stocks is reminiscent of the March 2000 dot-com bubble. As was the case then, the bulls rejected conventional valuation methods for a handful of stocks that seemingly could only go up. While we don't know exactly when the bubble will pop, it eventually will.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our view is that just because Amazon can disrupt somebody else's profit stream, it doesn't mean that Amazon earns that profit stream.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
We take the traditional value investor's process and just flip it around a little bit. The traditional value investor asks 'Is this cheap?' and then 'Why is it cheap?' We start by identifying a reason something might be mispriced, and then if we find a reason why something is likely mispriced, then we make a determination whether it's cheap.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never invent new reasons to continue with a position when the original reasons are no longer available.
- Constructing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe in constructing the portfolio so that we put our biggest amount of money in our highest-conviction idea, and then we view the other ideas relative to that.
- Rules
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- Nov 07, 2020
We try not to have many investing 'rules,' but there is one that has served us well: If we decide we were wrong about something, in terms of why we did it, we exit, period.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time, when someone tells you something, and it makes sense, it just makes sense. And that's that. But sometimes it really doesn't make sense.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020