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I prefer to buy long term winners when they have short term problems. You may call them falling knives, I call them being on sale. Most of what I buy is with the mindset of never selling, or at the very least, holding several years. With a long to very long term horizon, volatility doesn't bother me too much. I've been investing for nearly 25 years now, through 3 major bubbles (dot com, GFC, and the present). I saved up $500, the minimum deposit required to open an UTMA brokerage account, in middle school. I convinced my grandpa to co-sign the account, despite the fact that he nor anyone else in my family owned stocks or any other investments (aside from CDs). Investing has been my foremost interest for as long as I can remember. While classmates may be reading Harry Potter, I was into Security Analysis and the like. Although I grew up trying to emulate the Buffett style, I morphed into more of a Munger mindset. Who would best reflect my philosophy of favoring undervalued, while not outright ignoring generational growth opportunities to buy and hold very long term, would be Jay Bowen, Chuck Akre, and Ron Baron. I have been self-employed my entire life and for the last decade, have been investing full time. Prior to that, for 6 years I ran an online business in the credit card space. I started it the same month Bear Stearns went under and despite my poor timing and the fact that all my customers (banks) were in trouble, I maintained profitability every quarter and never took any outside investments or loans. Eventually I sold it to a publicly traded internet company. While running that business, the cash flow coming from it afforded me the opportunity to make high risk, high reward investments in private biotech companies. Two went public. Life sciences is a great interest/hobby of mine but because it evolves so rapidly and requires immense amounts of continuous due diligence, it is something I now only do on the peripheral of my portfolio. While the vast majority of what I buy may be considered boring, I do make investments in some highly speculative stocks. Contrary to the current mindset, I believe there's far too much debt to sustain higher rates for any meaningful amount of time. That fact, combined with low birth rates in developed nations, suggests the Japanification of our economy is more likely than a new normal of excessive inflation as many now believe we will face.Raised in Michigan, live in Southern California.
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