I was at Boston College while you were at Babson. We may as well have been in two different states because and Babson is such a beautiful campus, but I'm really nice. Interestingly, before he got bitten by the Value Investor bug, my first real investment was a biotech. In 2000, Nestle's Alcon Labs bought Beam Therapeutics for about $900 million in cash. But I had sold the stock long before that.
Fictional character Alex P. Keaton and real-life CEO Warren Buffett have at least one thing in common.
(0:21) Ron Gross discusses: - Getting inspiration from a sitcom character - Buying his 1st stock from research in an investing newsletter - His enduring admiration for Costco - The undefinable-but-real value of the “Buffett Premium” when examining Berkshire-Hathaway’s business
Stocks mentioned: DIS, NFLX, COST, BRK-B
Host: Chris Hill Guest: Ron Gross Engineer: Dan Boyd, Tim Sparks
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