It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.

I'm David Gardner.

What a pleasure to have you join with me this week.

I've enjoyed getting some listener feedback,

and in fact, we're going to touch off a two-week series.

So part one is going to be this week and it's all touched off by a note

I received from a longtime fool named Darren Hoke.

Darren who I've gotten to know a little bit via our community over the years an absolutely wonderful

fool and Darren said you know David if it all possible our community over the years an absolutely wonderful fool.

And Darren said, you know, David, if at all possible,

it would be helpful for you to go through some of the instances

where you picked a few stocks that were complete fails.

Like your highly successful ones, of which Darren says he's owned many for years, and

I'm glad to know that.

He wrote, it would be very educational for you to explain to us what went wrong in the business or your thesis and what you

learned from it." And that's end quote because that's exactly what Darren Road and

Darren. Thank you. Let's do that. In fact two weeks ago I did one of my favorite podcasts ever I think because I got to talk about how

Rule Breakers and Stock Advisor my two services had under recommendation the five top performers among the Fortune 500 companies

over the past 10 years. We didn't have all five for all 10 years, but we had all five

and we actually even had number six and number seven and if you haven't listened to that

please go back and listen two weeks ago to that podcast because I think it was a really

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