Akshay Ramachandran is a semi-retired investor in his 20s. Akshay's most recent job was being sole analyst reporting directly to the portfolio manager. They analyzed over 60 industries and used a simple strategy: buy and hold great businesses run by great management teams. He has taken the last year off for some time traveling around the world.

On this episode, PrivatEquityGuy & Akshay discuss:

• Lessons Akshay learned as a professional investor at a 9 figure hedge fund
• How to put together a great investor deck for your Holding Company (and why 99% of decks suck; mine included)
• Why Ashtead Group and United Rental have the greatest investor decks
• Why reading and thinking is the smartest thing you can do as an investor
• Reasearch process: Trusting management teams vs not trusting management teams
• "If I don't hit these numbers, I'm willing to go to jail" - what happened next was surprising

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Akshay's online course: The Investor Operating System