How David Beats Goliath

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 22 March 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week we look at Malcolm Gladwell’s 2009 New Yorker article, “How David Beats Goliath” and extract three inspiring investing lessons. Gladwell spells out the hidden advantages of being the “underdog” in a way well-suited to our Rule Breaker investing style.

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0:00.0	Thanks to Audible this week for supporting the Motley Fool Ponzi Supernova, a six-part original series is available on audible channels.
0:10.0	You can listen at audible.com slash Ponzi, P-O-N-Z-I. Thanks, audible.
0:17.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
0:24.0	And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
0:28.0	I'm delighted that you're joining with me this week.
0:32.0	Let me mention ahead of this week.
0:32.7	Let me mention ahead of this week's episode that we have mailbag next week and I'll make a
0:38.4	last minute invitation for you if you have a question for me or a thought to share. We are taping
0:45.6	mailbag early this week because I'm going to be away on spring break next week but if you
0:49.8	hear this if you if you're a first day listener of this podcast on a weekly basis and you want to drop us a quick note before I tape mailbag this Thursday,
0:58.5	more than happy to accept it. If you don't, by the way I'll mention we probably already have more mailbag
1:03.2	entries than we even need but I just put it out there if you feel moved so to do and you
1:07.7	want to be on this week's mailbag drop us a note and that's just rBI at fool
1:11.8	dot com by email.
1:15.0	So my name is David Gardner.
1:16.1	I'm delighted to have you with me and I'm focused this week on one of my favorite magazine
1:22.2	articles of the last decade. In fact I was looking at
1:24.7	you can read it online and and I would almost insist that if you enjoy this
1:28.7	week's podcast that you read in full Malcolm Gladwell's May 11th 2009 article entitled How David Beats Goliath.
1:39.1	And if you feel inspired after having heard this podcast and read that article I would encourage you to go on and
1:45.1	purchase Malcolm's book because sure enough as he sometimes want to do the
1:50.0	extract in the New Yorker became a book I believe it's by the same title and it has some great
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