IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

04:02 - How Warren Buffett already read financial statements when he was a kid.

12:05 - Why Warren Buffett was sitting behind the counter at the local steakhouse collecting receipts, and how that lead to one of his best investments.

24:13 - How a gentleman that counted sheets of toilet paper convinced Warren Buffett to work with him.

25:41 - Why Warren Buffett never replaces management in the companies he acquires.

27:04 - How Warren Buffett picked the CEO of Salomon Brothers in a simple, yet very orthodox way.

41:01 - Ask the Investors: How do you generate ideas for new stock investments?


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BOOKS AND RESOURCES

Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members.

Check out our five-page executive summary of Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist.

Roger Lowenstein’s book, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist – Read reviews of this book.

Alice Schroeder’s book, The Snowball – Read reviews of this book.

Preston, Trey & Stig’s tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool.


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Classic 11: Warren Buffett’s Biography

We interview and study famous financial billionaires, including Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio, and Howard Marks, and teach you what we learn and how you can apply their investment strategies in the stock market.
We Study Billionaires is the largest stock investing podcast show in the world with 150,000,000+ downloads and is hosted by Stig Brodersen, Preston Pysh, William Green, Clay Finck, and Kyle Grieve.
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Stig has invited legend investor Chris Bloomstran from Semper Augustus to teach us how to value Berkshire Hathaway on today's show. Semper Augustus has an outstanding track record with a compounded annual growth rate of 11.5% on equities since his fund's inception on 2/28/1999, compared to 7.6% for the S&P500. 

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00 - Intro
01:37 - The impact of holding cash on your portfolio returns.  
24:07 - How to understand the five different components that make up stock market returns.
33:14 - How to estimate the expected return of being invested in the S&P500.
40:57 - What the intrinsic value of Berkshire Hathaway is.
45:51 - How Berkshire Hathaway has allocated capital since 2018.

Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.

BOOKS AND RESOURCES

Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, Kyle, and the other community members.

Stig’s 2023 masterclass with Chris Bloomstran on valuing Berkshire Hathaway | YouTube Video.

Stig’s 2022 masterclass with Chris Bloomstran on valuing Berkshire Hathaway | YouTube Video.

Stig’s masterclass with Chris Bloomstran on equity valuations | YouTube Video.

Chris Bloomstran’s website.

Read Chris Bloomstran’s letters to his clients. 

Buffett resource on CNBC.

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TIP625: Berkshire Hathaway w/ Chris Bloomstran

On today’s episode, Clay discusses various financial crises from the past as discussed in the book This Time is Different by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff.
As the saying goes, from a historical perspective, there is nothing new except what is forgotten. Today’s episode will help shed light on where our world might be heading in light of studying history.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro
06:48 - The primary types of financial crises.
08:13 - When the debt levels of a country reach an unsustainable level.
27:00 - An overview of currency debasements and currency devaluations.
27:24 - How countries tend to handle unsustainable debt levels.
30:36 - An overview of the Great Financial Crisis.
47:32 - How the interests of governments and currency holders are at odds with each other.

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BOOKS AND RESOURCES

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Books mentioned: This Time is Different, Broken Money, The Price of Tomorrow


Episode Mentioned: TIP587: Stock Market Crises & Bubbles w/ Brendan Hughes | YouTube Video.

Related Episode: TIP574: Broken Money w/ Lyn Alden | YouTube Video.

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TIP624: Studying Financial History w/ Clay Finck

In our latest episode, we dive deep with Carlos Toriello into how Bitcoin’s OP_Return is pioneering election audits. We discuss transforming election skepticism into Bitcoin advocacy, highlighting Digital Witness's groundbreaking audit of Guatemala’s 2023 elections. Learn about Simple Proof, the OpenTimeStamps Protocol, and how these tools offer tamper-evident, verifiable documents, fostering trust and transparency. Join us in envisioning a future where digital integrity reshapes democracy.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00 - Intro
01:42 - The transformative potential of Bitcoin’s OP_Return for auditing elections and ensuring transparency.
02:08 - How Digital Witness became the first to verify all available election documents in Guatemala, promoting trust.
02:08 - The role of Simple Proof and Peter Todd’s OpenTimeStamps Protocol in creating tamper-evident election documents.
02:08 - Insights into the 2019 Guatemalan elections, showcasing real-world applications of blockchain for combating election fraud.
18:28 - The educational aspect of Fiscal Digital, introducing students to blockchain through gamified verification of election results.
28:23 - The concept behind "Immutable Democracy" and its implications for future election integrity.
35:34 - Recommendations for election system administrators worldwide on leveraging blockchain technology for transparency.
35:34 - A look forward to the 2027 elections and the potential for blockchain to revolutionize electoral processes further.

Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.

BOOKS AND RESOURCES

Link to Seb’s book: The Hidden Cost of Money.

Carlos' Twitter.

Digital Witness' Website.

Digital Witness' Email.

English friendly documentary #PaperDemocracy.

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NOSTR NIP 05: DigitalWitness@BitcoinNostr.com

Simple Proof's Website.

Simple Proof's Email.

Immutable Democracy Documentary.

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NOSTR NIP 05: simpleproof@nostr.gt

Stakwork's Website.

Stakwork's Twitter.

Stakwork's Email.

OpenTimestamps' Website.

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BTC178: Auditing Elections with Bitcoin w/ Carlos Toriello (Bitcoin Podcast)

Kyle Grieve chats with Annie Duke about her own story of quitting and how it helped sparked the idea for one of her books, the importance of base rates in helping us make better decisions, how to improve our investing processes when we have long feedback loops, the importance of using kill criteria to quit an investment or hypothesis, how to use a quitting coach to help you quit things we hold onto for too long, the importance of dissociating ourselves from our most cherished ideas, and a whole lot more!

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00 - Intro
02:28 - Annie's own story of quitting and how it got here to where she is today.
15:50 - Why expected value is so crucial for investors to manage risk best.
20:15 - The importance of understanding base rates.
20:15 - How we can use base rates to help us best understand expected values of our investments.
24:55 - How we can reframe our analysis of a business to close feedback loops on long-term investments.
32:40 - How we can get transfer from one skill to another far away skill (e.g. chess to investing).
45:28 - How we can use kill criteria in our investing decision-making to improve our abilities to quit a losing investment.
45:28 - How to engineer your decision-making to give yourself an outside view.
51:11 - How we can disassociate ourselves from our investments to reduce the impacts of the endowment effects.
51:32 - How to set up a quitting coach by permitting them to disagree with you.
And so much more!

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BOOKS AND RESOURCES

Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, Kyle, and the other community members.

Buy Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away here.

Buy Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts here.

Check out Annie’s substack here.

Learn more about Annie Duke here.

Related Episode: RWH015: Betting Better In Markets & Life w/ Annie Duke | YouTube video.

Related Episode: TIP231: The Mind Of A World Poker Champion w/ Annie Duke | YouTube video.

Learn more about the Berkshire Summit by clicking here or emailing Clay at clay@theinvestorspodcast.com.


Follow Kyle on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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TIP623: The Art Of Decision Making w/ Annie Duke

On today’s episode, Clay sits down with Joseph Shaposhnik to discuss his high quality investing approach. Since its inception in 2015, the TCW New America Premier Equities fund has compounded at 15.8% per year versus the benchmark of 12.0%.
Joseph is the Portfolio Manager of TCW New America Premier Equities, Global Premier Sustainable Equities, and Global Space Technology Equities portfolios. According to Nasdaq eVestment, the TCW New America fund has outperformed 99% of its peers.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00 - Intro
03:25 - The two types of recurring revenue.
13:37 - Why certainty is an essential part of a quality investing framework.
25:02 - How Joseph thinks about portfolio allocation by industry.
28:02 - Value accretive versus value destructive capital allocation decisions.
36:09 - How understanding incentives can make us better investors.
36:53 - Why we should ignore Buffett’s advice of buying businesses so great that an idiot can run it.
46:33 - How Joseph developed his own investment approach after working under two investment legends at Fidelity.
51:56 - Why Joseph believes that quality investing is the best approach to match his investment objectives and temperament.
58:33 - Why growth in free cash flow per share is Joseph’s number one focus as an investor.
1:00:28 - An update on a few of Joseph’s portfolio holdings

Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.

BOOKS AND RESOURCES

Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, Kyle, and the other community members.

Learn more about the TCW New America Fund.

Check out Buffett’s 1996 Shareholder Letter.

Book Mentioned: What I Learned About Investing from Darwin by Pulak Prasad.

Book Mentioned: Big Money Thinks Small by Joel Tillinghast.

Episode Mentioned: RWH017: Fidelity Legend w/ Joel Tillinghast | YouTube Video.

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Follow Clay on Twitter. 

Check out all the books mentioned and discussed in our podcast episodes here.

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Classic 11: Warren Buffett’s Biography

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