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Sep 2024
1h 21m

The Guy Who Studied Buffett for 25 Years

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About this episode

Episode 626: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Guy Spier ( https://x.com/GSpier ) about everything he’s learned from studying the greatest value investors of all time. 

Show Notes: 

(0:00) The Posse

(5:41) Farmer Mac

(17:30) Lessons from going to 9 Tony Robbins seminars

(28:57) Handwritten notes from Warren Buffett

(42:00) Don’t study lottery winners

(59:22) Berkshire vs Index

(1:05:13) Finite vs infinite games

(1:13:26) Be a promiscuous reader



Links:

• VALUEx - https://www.valuex.ch/

• Aquamarine - https://www.aquamarinefund.com/

• Guy’s book - https://tinyurl.com/47zvxatr

• Power vs Force - https://tinyurl.com/2fn9peya

• Influence - https://tinyurl.com/3z2vyfdt

• Shareholder Letters - https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack - https://tinyurl.com/bdf6pcww




Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd


Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/



My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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