Understanding the Business Before Investing

This chapter explores the balance between understanding a business before investing and taking a starter position. The speaker emphasizes the importance of knowing the company well enough to be a shareholder when putting capital at risk.

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Kyle Grieve chats with Braden Dennis about his entrepreneurial history and how it impacted his stock investing, how his background in engineering has helped him solve problems, why he created FinChat and where he sees it going in the future, his investing philosophy, the future of AI for finance use cases, how he utilizes KPIs in investing using technology, why he’ll regret not owning Costco, and a whole lot more!

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN

00:00 - Intro

01:52 - The importance of quality investments.

18:25 - How FinChat has trained its AI to overcome mathematical limitations.

22:00 - What Braden likes about Crowdstrike.

22:00 - How AI will free up time for investing professionals shortly.

23:49 - The importance of keeping an open mind to potential investments.

34:01 -Why over-diversification is pointless.

40:50 - Why Braden likes Constellation Software so much.

40:50 - About concentrated investing.

43:51 - Why Costco is such an incredible business.

And much, much more!

*Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences.

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