Chai with Pabrai cover image

Mohnish Pabrai's Q&A with members of the Finance and Investment Cell at SRCC, Delhi on June 14, 2023

Chai with Pabrai

CHAPTER

Why Investors Make Mistakes in Investing

Do investors lose less when they don't care in investing? I'm sorry. Can you repeat that last sentence? Right. Well, yeah, I mean, I think with investing the reason the error rate is high is because of, I would say primarily two reasons. One is that humans have a tendency to fork to basically project present circumstances to infinity. For example, we have a company in the US called NVIDIA and NVIDIA just hit a trillion dollar market cap and it's up almost like 200% this year in the first five, six months. And there's a lot of euphoria around NVIDIA. But similar sentiment existed in early 2000 with Microsoft. They tend to at times get very overhe

00:00
Transcript
Play full episode

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts

Save insights instantly, chat with episodes, and build lasting knowledge - all powered by AI.
App store bannerPlay store banner