Some of the most profitable investments you will ever make are companies that don't

seem like they are growing very fast, but they are growing very consistently.

The lower the raw growth rate, the more I would want to see a company that if it disappeared

tomorrow would be painful to the consumers that buy it.

I'm Dylan Lewis and that's the Motley Fool's Bill Man.

Today we're kicking off our series on Small Cap Investing.

It's kind of the secret sauce of what we do here.

Producer Ricky Movy caught up with Bill to talk about why small caps can help investors

beat the market, the traits of great leaders in this space, and why it's even more important

to watch these CEOs, and one investing trend that has some serious, stang power.

Today we're kicking off a series on Small Cap Investing.

We don't normally do the full titles, but you are the director of Small Cap Research

here, so it does seem appropriate to establish that.

Thanks for doing this.

It's no problem.

You're right.

We don't do titles, and I'm glad we don't, but in this case, hopefully I've got something

to say.

Well, we got about a half hour, and if you have nothing to say, it's going to be a very

difficult podcast.

It's right there.

Hey, Ricky, so what do you got?

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