The chapter explores the genesis of 'The Myth of Capitalism,' focusing on high corporate profit margins and industrial concentration in the US. It discusses the strategy of investing in essential service providers with natural value chains, contrasts long-short and long-only approaches, and emphasizes the importance of compounding money and avoiding capital loss. The conversation extends to identifying global monopolies, highlighting natural and harmful monopolies in various sectors and the risks and rewards of investing in monopolies created by law.
Jonathan Tepper is the CIO of Prevatt Capital, a $450 million long only firm he founded in 2020 that takes a quality and value approach to own a concentrated portfolio of global monopolies. He is also the author of The Myth of Capitalism, a book we discussed alongside his career path on the show five years ago. That conversation is replayed in the feed. Our conversation this time around bookends our prior discussion, covering Jonathan’s unique upbringing and education on one end and his creation of Prevatt Capital to apply the lessons from The Myth of Capitalism on the other.
As a disclaimer, I so took to Jonathan when we first met that I’ve been an advisor to him and Prevatt Capital since launch and am an investor in the strategy.
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