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- Questions To Ask: What does this business do? Why do people buy this business and not the other business? How do you make money? How did this start? How did you get here?
- Lesson: “And so it’s just asking really simple questions, like why is the
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the best way to achieve your goal is to deserve it
The better the investor, the simpler the questions. When I started, I was obsessed with jargon, complex questions and spreadsheets. Now I ask things like “what does it do?”, “why do people buy it?”, and “why are you selling?”. And I never do more math than I can fit on a napkin.
Jeremy Giffontwitter.com"An investment philosophy on ‘complexity investing’ from NZS Capital"
Investment philosophy on "complexity investing" from NZS Capital, emphasizing the need to embrace extreme events, balance resilience and optionality, and focus on quality, growth, and understanding change in portfolio construction.
static1.squarespace.comNZS Capital poses that the economy and the stock market are best studied as complex adaptive systems akin to biology. They emphasize investing in companies that are adaptable, long-term focused, innovative, possess long-duration growth, and maximize non-zero-sum outcomes. The approach involves fewer, larger positions in companies highly adaptive to disruption, high levels of quality, growth, and context, and smaller positions in companies with a wide range of potential outcomes.
I’m often asked about my investing framework. I don’t have one; I vibe.
What does this mean? Frameworks arise each time anew – assembled on the fly in concert with the uniqueness of the entrepreneurs and their pursuits.
This is vibe capital.
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