This might be one of my favorite podcasts of 2025 ... and it's only January.

Stephen Farrington is a small cap investor and author of the Unemployed Small-Cap Value Degenerate Substack.

If you love eclectic investment journeys, you're in the right place. Stephen went from chef to student to professor to full-time investor/writer.

And what a story it is.

We discuss philosophy, investment frameworks, and some of Stephen's latest ideas.

Check out his substack here: https://unemployedvaluedegen.substack.com

Finally, a big thanks to our sponsors for making this episode happen.

Mitimco

This episode is brought to you by MIT Investment Management Company, also known as MITIMCo, the investment office of MIT. Each year, MITIMCo invests in a handful of new emerging managers who it believes can earn exceptional long-term returns in support of MIT's mission. To help the emerging manager community more broadly, they created ⁠⁠⁠⁠emergingmanagers.org⁠⁠⁠⁠, a website for emerging manager stockpickers.

I highly recommend the site for those looking to start a stock-picking fund or just learning about how others have done it. You'll find essays and interviews by successful emerging managers, service providers used by MIT's own managers, essays MITIMCo has written for emerging managers, and more!

TIKR

TIKR is THE BEST resource for all stock market data, I use TIKR every day in my process, and I know you will too. Make sure to check them out at ⁠⁠⁠⁠TIKR.com/hive⁠⁠⁠⁠.