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InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

375- Netflix (Part 2)

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Investing, Business

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Continuing their discussion on the biggest investment question mark that is Netflix, Phil and Danielle dig deeper into helping you figure out complex, and seemingly impossible to invest in companies. While Netflix may be almost impossible to understand and wrap your head around investing in, there’s still value in looking at it through the lens of basic Rule #1 investment practices that will help you learn how to avoid confirmation bias and invest logically. Tune in to this episode of InvestED to hear what we can learn about investing from complex companies like Netflix, and people that do choose to invest in them. To learn more about what types of questions to ask and what you need to understand to invest with success, download Phil’s 4 Ms to Successful Investing Guide: https://bit.ly/3zzKVOd Resources Discussed: Netflix 10-K Topics Discussed: Confirmation bias Investing in companies that are “too hard” Rule #1 investing basics Understanding moats and management For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody this is Phil Town and this is Danielle Town. Welcome to the

0:15.9

invested podcast you guys know what we do here. We are deep into Netflix at this

0:21.6

point. Oh yeah. Fun. As are all of the listeners. And just forcing you deeply

0:29.2

into Netflix. Netflix is not a six inch bar and I sometimes we I wonder if we're

0:34.5

really hurting you guys by going deep into something that is really more

0:40.0

difficult than really most of us should be messing with. But it has fallen

0:45.0

about a bazillion dollars down. Basilians a lot. It draws. Can we just make that

0:50.7

point really quick? What about maybe how it's in the too hard pile? Because I

0:55.0

actually think it's really interesting. We often when we talk about real companies we often

1:00.4

talk about companies that either you or I are very comfortable with and are not too hard. And I

1:06.2

think it's actually really interesting to look at one that might be too hard and have everybody

1:13.3

see what that looks like or or what it might look like. I don't know if it's too hard for us

1:18.3

necessarily. But I think grappling with it is is interesting and not something I maybe we've done

1:23.3

on the show before. Yeah and the thing with something that's too hard before you realize it's

1:28.2

too hard is that I'm talking about me specifically here. I enter into a kind of state of hubris.

1:36.0

Oh yes. Where I kind of I think I've got this. Oh that was the city and they're listening to

1:44.8

Prattle not Prattle that's me like talk at length about your love of Netflix and what a great

1:52.8

company it was and I was like man there's a lot of problems here. It's a lot of confirmation bias

2:00.2

is really what what you hear when when you start to really chatter about what a great thing this is

2:07.8

um just can just make sure you understand that confirmation bias is a disease that strikes

2:14.6

investors everywhere and you must find some way to immunize yourself against it. I don't know if

2:21.4

it's even possible. It might be more like COVID where we just sort of never get over it. It's just

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