Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Brent Beshore – Cultivating a Disaster Resistant, Compound Interest Machine - [Invest Like the Best, EP.10]

Nov 8, 2016

01:37:38

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Episode notes

Understanding the Motivations of People Selling to You in Public Markets

01:10

Building and Growing Successful Businesses through Wise Investments

02:22

Financing Strategy and the Role of Debt in Investments

01:47

The value of data in business and investing

02:29

Introduction

2min

How Do We Buy Boring Businesses and Make Them Less Boring?

2min

How Did You Get to Where You Are Today?

4min

Capital Allocation

4min

Buffet and the Fish That Eats the Whale

2min

The Psychology of Self-Deception in Investing

2min

Do You Use Debt or Just Cash?

2min

Do You Have a Portfolio of Government Contractors?

4min

How Do You Filter a Business?

5min

10.

How Much Is Your Baby Worth?

3min

11.

Are You Thinking About Taking Outside Capital?

2min

12.

Is There a Difference Between Owner Earnings and Free Cash Flow?

2min

13.

How Do You Extend Profitability Post Acquisition?

5min

14.

Is Content Marketing a Good Use of Resources?

6min

15.

Influence and Co

4min

16.

How Do We Do Value Ats?

4min

17.

Is There Any Absurdity in Public Markets?

2min

18.

What Is Your Most Memorable Day At?

2min

19.

The Untold Story of the Gugolet Seven

3min

20.

How Do You Get Started Making Wine?

2min

21.

Do You Still Make Wine?

3min

22.

The Squiggly Things

3min

23.

What's the Biggest Miss You've Had in a Forsale?

3min

24.

I've Got Tons and Tons of Those Examples I'm Trying to Think About

3min

25.

Private Equity - What Is Our Single Greatest Edge?

2min

26.

What Is the Process for Finding Deals?

6min

27.

The Intricacy of Dealing With Taxes

2min

28.

Do You Love What You Do?

2min

29.

What Are Your Key Points on a Daily Basis?

3min

30.

The Kindest Thing Anyone Has Doed for Me?

5min

This week’s guest is Brent Beshore, Founder and CEO of adventur.es, a family of companies that invests in family-owned companies. Brent has a very specific mission with this company, to cultivate a disaster resistant, compound interest machine. At just 33 years of age he has already built a portfolio of private companies that has produced impressive results. He’s done all this out of the limelight and with no outside investors. Brent discusses his rewarding but difficult journey and what he has learned, including sourcing and evaluating businesses, how he and his team have improved profitability at his portfolio companies after acquisition and so much more.

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