My guest on the show today is Jeremy Kokemor, the Founder of Right Tail Capital. After several buyside stints, including at T. Rowe Price, Jeremy founded Right Tail in 2022. Jeremy runs a concentrated portfolio of high-quality companies that just happen to be trading at large discounts to intrinsic value. In this wide-ranging conversation, we discussed:

• Why he decided on the name Right Tail;

For more information about Right Tail Capital, please visit: https://www.righttailcapital.com/

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My guest on the show today is Tyler Hardt, the Senior Portfolio Manager at Seagate Capital Management. After spending about 9 years at Artisan Partners, Tyler decided to go out on his own and start his own firm in 2018. Tyler is an unabashed value investor who even wrote a book called, Value Investing: A Disciplined Framework. In this insightful conversation, we discussed:

• The founding story of Seagate Capital and why Tyler felt like he was ready to be an entrepreneur;

For more information about Seagate Capital Management (formerly Pelican Bay Capital Management), please visit: https://pelicanbaycap.com/

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My guest on the show today is Heather Brilliant, the CEO of publicly traded company, Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: DHIL). Heather became CEO in 2019 after putting together an enviable resume of experiences at other investment firms. As of the most recent quarter, Diamond Hill had about $26 billion of assets under management, but still considers itself a boutique firm. In this holistic conversation, we discussed:

• Heather’s experience becoming CEO right before the world shut down due to COVID;

For full disclosure, I am not a Diamond Hill shareholder. For more information about Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc., please visit: https://www.diamond-hill.com/

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My guest on the show today is Jake Wood, the founder and CEO of Groundswell. Jake is a former Marine who founded a non-profit organization called Team Rubicon, which has over 100,000 volunteers located around the world. Jake stepped back from being Team Rubicon’s CEO in 2021 to start Groundswell, a company that is attempting to transform employee giving through the use of technology. My guess is that most people haven’t thought deeply about the nuances of employee giving or are familiar with what are known as Donor Advised Funds. But, when I had a chance to use the Groundswell product, I immediately wanted to have Jake on the podcast to discuss what he and his team are building.

Specifically, we covered:

• The founding story of Groundswell;

For more information about Groundswell, please visit: https://groundswell.io/

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My guest on the show today is Joseph Shaposhnik, the portfolio manager of the TCW New Americas Premier Equities Fund. Joseph began managing the fund in 2015 and since then has assembled a concentrated portfolio of mostly US mid-to-large-cap stocks. Morningstar currently has a 4-star rating on the fund, which consists of a collection of high quality, recurring revenue businesses. In this conversation, we covered:

• Why predictability of cash flows is so important to Joseph;

For more information about Joseph Shaposhnik and TCW Group, please visit: https://www.tcw.com/

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Today’s episode is another in our series of interviews with emerging investment managers where we discuss how to build an investment firm that can compound. My guest on this show is Aaron Wasserman, a Partner at Third Period Capital. After a long and successful tenure at Baron Capital, in 2019 Aaron started Third Period, a long-only, global growth firm based in Los Angeles. Aaron believes he has cultivated an edge in identifying and owning companies with exceptional cultures—and he has engaged Wharton Professor and best-selling author Adam Grant to help widen his competitive advantage.

In this discussion, we covered:

• How to analyze company cultures and determine if they are additive to growth;

For more information about Third Period Capital, please visit: https://www.thirdperiodcapital.com/ 

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My guest on the show today is Sean Stannard-Stockton, the President and CIO of Ensemble Capital, an investment and wealth management firm that has built up quite a following on social media as a result of its consistent output of thoughtful content. Sean and his team of analysts manage over a billion dollars in equities, consisting of a concentrated portfolio of super high-quality businesses. The team has developed a rigorous competitive advantage assessment process that is designed to identify only those companies with durable moats.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Sean and I discuss:

• How Ensemble employs its competitive advantage framework when construction a portfolio;

For more information about Ensemble Capital, please visit: https://ensemblecapital.com/

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Today’s episode is the next in our series of profiles of emerging investment firms. In these interviews, we dive deep into the various components of building an investment firm that can compound. Our guest on the show today is Greg Dean, the Founder and Lead of Investor at Toronto-based Langdon Equity Partners. Greg founded Langdon in 2021 after successful stints at Fidelity and Cambridge Global Asset Management. Langdon describes itself as an “active and engaged owner of world class smaller companies.” The firm has assembled concentrated portfolios of companies with enterprise values between $500 million and $5 billion that are cash generative and are run by long-term-oriented executives.

In this conversation, we discuss:

• Why Greg wants the Langdon office to be more like a library than a train station;

Without any further ado, here is my conversation with Greg Dean of Langdon Equity Partners. For more information about Langdon Equity Partners, please visit: https://www.langdonpartners.com/

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My guests on the show to today are Heather Beatty and Robin Kollannur, the respective founder and Portfolio Manager of ScopeFour Capital. After a number of years working in business development at large investment firms, Heather started ScopeFour, a climate impact-focused firm, to take advantage of the investment opportunities associated with companies that are building impactful climate solutions. Robin has 30 years of experience in money management and has recently joined the firm to implement the ScopeFour process and vision.

In this extensive conversation, we discussed:

• The founding of ScopeFour and the investing opportunity set;

Without any further ado, here is my conversation with Heather Beatty and Robin Kollannur of ScopeFour Capital. For more information about ScopeFour Capital, please visit: https://www.scopefourcapital.com/

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My guest on the show today is Thomas Li, the co-founder and CEO of financial data company Daloopa. Daloopa is a private company that was founded by a group of former buy-side investment analysts who saw the opportunity to use technology to upgrade the research process at just about any type of investment firm; but with a specific focus on saving analysts and portfolio managers time. Just a few years into its journey, the company already has over 200 employees and has multiple offices around the world.

In this wide-ranging interview, Thomas and I discussed:

• Where the original idea for Daloopa came from;

As a disclaimer, Daloopa is a sponsor of the Compounders podcast. Cove Street nor Ben Claremon are shareholders of Daloopa.

Without any further ado, here is my conversation with Daloopa CEO Thomas Li. For more information about Daloopa, please visit: https://daloopa.com/

This episode of Compounders: The Anatomy of a Multibagger is sponsored by Daloopa. Daloopa was founded by a former hedge fund analyst to bring simplicity to the investment process. Daloopa offers an AI-driven, single source for all company reported data, and allows for investment teams to make the most informed decisions in the shortest amount of time. For more information, please visit: https://daloopa.com/

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