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InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

110- From the Vault: Guy Spier on Finding a Company's Moat

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Business, Investing

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

For show notes and more information, visit www.investedpodcast.com. This week on our from the vault episode, we are continuing our discussion on value investing basics with Hedge Fund manager and author of Education of a Value Investor, Guy Spier. This week we’ll cover how to know what you don’t know and get Guy’s thoughts on finding a company’s moat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everybody and welcome to Invested. I'm Danielle Town. We're taking a short break on new

0:05.3

episodes of our podcast just for a couple weeks because we want to replay all three episodes of our

0:10.2

talk with Value Investor Guy Spear and also because my dad and I are working on something

0:14.9

special that will announce just as soon as we possibly can.

0:19.2

In addition to listening to Guy today, check out the news about Berkshire Hathaway's recent

0:23.1

annual shareholder meeting which is always held on the first weekend in May and was

0:28.0

recently held on the first weekend in May. So there's tons of news about it.

0:32.7

Check that out because we'll be discussing it

0:34.4

when Dad and I are back with a new episode

0:36.8

two weeks from now.

0:37.9

So here's Guy, enjoy. I've started doing something I'm really excited about.

0:47.0

So I've done two of them and it started off when a friend of mine from business school

0:55.4

he's he's actually from the family so his name is Brian Lawrence companies

0:59.9

called Yorktown Partners they They were significant shareholders in

1:03.0

cross tax and he sent me a white paper on renewables. So it doesn't even have his

1:09.2

name at the top. Just a sort of like a simple word memo, but he gathered like a research paper. Yeah, but he gathered in that document

1:18.7

Some amazing insights based on conversations that he's had.

1:24.4

Now I had no value to add to his memo on renewables

1:27.7

because I know nothing about renewables.

1:29.9

But he sent it to me as a way of giving me an opportunity to get back to him to discuss what's in the document.

1:38.0

And the top of the document says, if, you know, please get back to me with your feedback so that I can incorporate your ideas into the document and send it out again.

1:50.0

So it encourages people to give feedback. So I tried this out and I did it on credit card networks.

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