Those are some of the factors that I have John.

There are others but I just say is it run by the founder is cash flow

positive doesn't have a worldwide customer base opportunity and is it

demonstrating high top line growth rates.

I'm Mary Long and that's Motley Fool, co-founder and CEO Tom Gardner. Today's episode is a cut from our

members only podcast, Stock Advisor Roundtable. We'll put a link to the

podcast in the show notes for you. In this preview, Tom joins Motley Fool contributor, Brian Stofel, to discuss investor expectations

for Airbnb, how AI is reshaping the tech workforce, and some under-the-radar names for investors to keep an eye on. Oh, And John says, what is the profiling criteria that the average person can look for in a company to determine if it's going to be a future blockbuster?

For example, what was the profile for NVIDIA Invidia, Google, Amazon, Tesla, Apple, and companies like them

that gave the early investor an indicator that this was going to

something to pay attention to.

Now you already talked about this but John says

success leaves clues and the trick is to recognize them early and bend over and pick them up

off the floor. Any more clues you want to add to that other than a CEO who might drive his

employees crazy because he's fixing things right before they go live?

Well I do think that's one of the criteria is in general in these if you want to find them early you're probably not buying into a smooth ride.

So that is both from the business and how the business is being run, but certainly the stock, how

volatile.

The best performing stocks in American history have at some point almost all of them

been very volatile stocks because they were entering a category as confusing.

No one knew whether to believe in it or not, but turned out that they were great.

And as people saw that in their business and product performance, they convinced people institutions came in and

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