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June 2, 2020: Looking at Workday, the HR & Finance ERP provider, using Phil Fisher’s 15 point investment checklist. A first pass of the company from the 2019 annual report, proxy statement, articles on culture and personal anecdotes from my accounting/consulting days.
June 1, 2020: One-sentence summary on the Art of Learning: Learning bottom-up tactics/strategies for optimal performance from a chess grandmaster turned world champion martial artist
May 29, 2020: I spend most of the day learning about calisthenics training and trying to incorporate powerlifting program disciplines into. It resulted in the base version of my first bodyweight strength training program and specific strength/skills goals the program is focused on achieving. Then, the day was spend learning about a unique value investor: Josh Tarsoff of Greenlea Capital Partners. Josh has an investment style that looks at compounders, company culture, mission-driven businesses and a contrarian look at company valuations that I love.
May 28, 2020: Learning about Spotify’s Culture from Corporate Rebel’s 2-part report, learning to cold brew coffee at home from Starbucks, external validation on OMD Daily, rethinking about management from the Focused Compounding podcast.
May 27, 2020: Investment research on Spotify using Phil Fisher’s 15 point checklist as a foundation. Information obtained from reading the 2019 annual report and 2019 Q4 shareholder letter.
May 26, 2020: Research into Atlassian using Phil Fisher’s 15 point investment checklist. This was a first-take of the company after reading the 2019 annual report and Q4 2019 shareholder letter.
May 25, 2020: A hodge podge of learnings on - Rule of 240 from Focused Compounding, Occam’s Razor and Charlie Munger, High Inflation Investing from The Investor’s Podcast and Focused Compounding, Modest Proposal on Invest like the Best, and Chris Mayer on Meb Faber Show.
2020-05-22: Today’s episode is a conversation with Francois Le Nguyen, General Manager of Entrepreneur First (EF). We start out by learning about EF, how they invest in talent and Frankie’s experience launching the program in Canada. We also dig into Frankie’s fascinating career starting as a teenage entrepreneur running a web development business before university, to spending six years in product management in Montreal and Singapore, and joining EF in Singapore. Given my fascination with investing in people, we also explore Frankie’s experience with identifying talent, how the program helps produce successful teams of co-founders and companies, some characteristics that tie in the successful teams in the past and much more!
May 21, 2020: Learnings from writing an investment research report for Morningstar. A financial data platform that’s ingrained with a culture of cost-discipline and contrarian attitudes that has a shot of displacing the existing order.
May 20, 2020: A hodge podge of learnings today. All breadth and no depth. Talking about Constellation’s exciting acquisition of Topics starting the spin-off train, Spotify’s deal with Joe Rogan breaking my heart (short-term), talking with a friend who owns a coffee shop chain in Toronto, and a key learning/appreciation from Li Lu of Himalaya Capital’s 2013 lecture.
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