Meet the Fool: Tim Beyers

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🗓️ 25 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

To become an expert, you may not always need expertise. You may just need to start asking better questions. Tim Beyers is a lead analyst at The Motley Fool and a frequent guest on Motley Fool Money. He’s also the host of This Week in Tech, a weekly show on our premium livestream. In today’s show, Tim talks with Mary Long about: What convinced him to buy Amazon for the first time (and why he sold 2 years later). Unit economics, and one company that excels at it. The relationship between enthusiasm and education. Members of any Motley Fool Service can watch “This Week in Tech” at 10:00 am ET on Fridays, or any time at the Fool Live replay hub. To become a Motley Fool member, head to www.fool.com/signup. Have an analyst you want us to feature on an upcoming “Meet the Fool” episode? Want to share your own investing journey with us? Send a note (or a voice recording!) to [email protected] Host: Mary Long Guest: Tim Beyers Engineer: Dez Jones, Kyle Carruthers Tickers mentioned: DUOL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And so that ability, I think in investing and in life generally, the ability to humbly ask a question of whether or not I heard what I heard, does this make sense?
0:16.6	If it doesn't, what am I missing?
0:19.2	And so then gradually I keep accumulating little bit of extra knowledge.
0:25.0	It's not that I have deep expertise in this, Mary.
0:27.6	It's that I have learned enough over time
0:32.2	to be able to ask a better question than I used to be able to ask.
0:36.0	I'm Mary Long and not's Tim Byers.
0:41.0	He's a lead analyst at the Motley Fool, a frequent guest on this show, and a co-host on this
0:45.8	week in tech, a weekly show on our members only live stream. I recently caught up with
0:51.0	Tim to learn more about how he went from a communications career to being one of our resident tech experts.
0:57.0	We also discuss the magazine cover that originally convinced him to buy Amazon,
1:02.0	how time has made him a more conservative investor,
1:05.0	and one company that excels at Unit Economics. We have dedicated some time this summer to getting to know a handful of our foolish analysts that are frequent guests on the show a bit better and today we're chatting with Mr. Tim
1:23.9	Byers out of Denver Colorado. Tim thanks for being here.
1:27.3	Thanks for having me Mary fully caffeinated ready to go.
1:30.8	Fully caffeinated and ready to go. Fully caffeinated and ready to go.
1:34.0	Okay, when Tim and I are both in the office together, we are two of the coffee fiends that can
1:40.9	constantly count on each other to brew a pot of coffee.
1:45.0	Tony Southcoat is another one of those coffee-loving fools.
1:49.0	Tim, what particular story of that phrase though?
1:52.0	Because I've heard you say it a million times, but I don't quite know how it came about.
1:55.4	I think it came about from former fool Chris Hill who like us he is in that class of fools who just like always had a cup of coffee.
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