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"The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems." Philip Arthur Fisher

"Real investors should never feel bearish because the time to buy value is when markets go down!" Irving Kahn

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Matthew Cochrane Portfolio - Added to $BABA, $GH, $PAYC, $MELI, GPN

End of Nov top holdings:
AMZN 8.2% of portfolio
MA 7.5%
SWKS 7.3%
GOOGL 7.0%
FB 6.8%
PYPL 6.4%
DIS 6.0%
MSFT 5.4%
SQ 3.7%
GPN 3.5%
HD 3.3%
PAYC 3.2%
SHOP 2.6%
VZ 2.5%
HAS 2.3%
JPM 2.2%
EA 2.2%
GLW 2.2%
BABA 2.1%
ADBE 1.9%
MDB 1.8%
MELI 1.8%
AAXN 1.5%
KMI 1.4%
MCO 1.4% https://t.co/Ei0TPwt85t

— Matthew Cochrane (@FoolMCochrane) November 30, 2019

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$SMAR Thread

"And then if you look at our Fortune 100 customers, and we have over 90% of the Fortune 100, their dollar-based net retention rate was 159%." $SMAR pic.twitter.com/pduavSUxE1

— Uncovering Value (@stockthoughts81) October 4, 2019

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Funny - WeWork Parody

THREAD: The rise and fall of WeWork. Told through a series of GIFs from The Office.

Starring Michael Scott as Adam Neumann.

— Ramp Capital (@RampCapitalLLC) October 4, 2019

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What made different working at Stripe Thread

I recently left Stripe after 4.5 formative and magical years. Some reflections on what made working at Stripe feel different than working other places:
1/Turpentine
2/Writing
3/Meticulousness
4/Principled decision-making
5/Ambition
6/Talking up
7/The API metaphor

— Brie Wolfson (@zebriez) October 4, 2019

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Tech stocks to follow

Tech stocks I follow ranked by sales grow % over past 5 years:$SHOP - 85%$TDOC - 84%$TWLO - 67%$ZEN - 53%$NEWR - 50%$GRUB - 49%$APPF - 48%$BL - 48%$FB - 48%$ZG - 46%$HUBS - 46%$TEAM - 41%$PAYC - 39%$CYBR - 49%$PANW - 37%

— Brian Feroldi (@BrianFeroldi) November 30, 2019

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Brian Stoffel Portfolio

My December #SkinInTheGame update.

Pic below shows size-weighted returns ~tripling market

Top 10

1) $AMZN (17% of port)
2) $GOOGL 10%
3) $SHOP 10%
4) $AAXN 8%
5) $MELI 8%
6) Cash 8%
7) $VEEV 6%
8) $MDB 5%
9) $FB 4%
10) $ISRG 4% pic.twitter.com/17u7OlT2FQ

— Brian Stoffel (@TMFStoffel) December 2, 2019

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Great Thread on Quality & Contrarianism

Spend more time on differences in operating model (or business model) and nuanced patterns associated with high returns (example small % of customer costs but mission critical) vs general 'moats', ie spend more time on the actual operating intricacies

— eric boroian (@eboroian) October 4, 2019

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$INTU Thread

Intuit $INTU 2019 Investor Day slides https://t.co/JXvAWt7NRN pic.twitter.com/xQ3yhCYnte

— WTCM (@WTCM3) October 3, 2019

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$COST Busienss Model Thread

1/ This is the key. The company keeps gross margins as low as possible.

We'll cover the second part of the highlighted section a little bit later. pic.twitter.com/wK1FisVeyT

— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) October 4, 2019

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$MA and $V Thread

Serious question: why does everyone think that $MA & $V moats are so impenetrable. I fully understand why they have been good businesses in the past, but I'm not sure why that should remain the case in the future. Here are some of my concerns:

— Brian McCann (@Bootstrap68) August 9, 2019

Selected Tweets

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"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." Michael John Bobak

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." Jim Rohn

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Outdoor advertising

Outdoor advertising as a channel has gained market share vs 20 years ago pic.twitter.com/jC72RlnPud

— Bluegrass Capital (@BluegrassCap) September 19, 2019

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$CNSWF \ $CSU.TO Thread

(1/10)Story on $CSU.TO’s acquisition process that I saw up close. It makes me more confident in their ability to win deals:

A friend owned ~40% of a VMS company with ~$1mm EBITDA growing ~MSD and mentioned that he wanted to sell. He potentially wanted to stay on afterwards.

— Kyler Hasson (@kylerhasson) September 19, 2019

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$SDC Thread

$SDC looks tempting, high growth high gross margin, big TAM, some competitive advantages that does take time to replicate. But corp governance redflags all over.

— mspacey (@mspacey4415) September 17, 2019

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$MNST Thread

1/n $MNST management became too conservative over the past years (thread on $MNST)

— CT Capital (@CrowdedTradeCap) September 18, 2019

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A lot of good companies in this discussion.

What's your favorite under-followed company?

My favs:$BL$EPAM$NVCR$LVGO$PAYC$HQY

— Brian Feroldi (@BrianFeroldi) September 17, 2019

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Top grossing media franchises of all time $NTDOY, $DIS

Fascinating infographic: Top grossing media franchises of all time. Pokémon, Hello Kitty, Mickey Mouse, Star Wars, etc

Observations:
- most of the money has been made in merchandise and video games
- so many Japanese brands! 5 out of the top 10
- many created in the past decade pic.twitter.com/6Munq0Upql

— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) September 15, 2019

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$SE Thread

The "official" answer during the secondary roadshow was "to diversify the shareholder base, and improve stock liquidity".

The truth (in my view) was 1) the stock had risen 100% in three months, but nothing had changed fundamentally besides investors waking up to the story...

— Hayden Capital (@HaydenCapital) September 17, 2019

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$OSTK Thread

1/ I think it is important that I update my $OSTK thesis. I believe that the company is wildly overvalued and unlikely to succeed, but I no longer believe the "digital dividend" will be smoothly handled by Wall St. so I covered over the past few days at an avg of $22.80. cont....

— Alpha Exposure (@alpha_exposure) September 13, 2019

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$V Thread

not the worst outcome for $V Europe CEO Charlotte Hogg (left BoE in March 2017) pic.twitter.com/GE5n1SPvhY

— WTCM (@WTCM3) September 14, 2019

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Chartsravaganza

Here’s Chartstravaganza … from somewhere pic.twitter.com/veifnpNrWH

— Plan Maestro (@PlanMaestro) September 15, 2019

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It's time for some tweets.

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"The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions." Seth Klarman

"We are big fans of fear, and in investing it is clearly better to be scared than sorry." Seth Klarman

"We worry top-down, but we invest bottom-up." Seth Klarman

                                                                                                                          
Mission critical companies. Lots of good names.

Mission critical companies

Companies that if you shut them down today, the company that uses them couldn’t function:

Salesforce
Microsoft
Guidewire
Instructure
Blackboard
Veeva
Adobe
VMware
Nutanix
AutoDesk
Square
PayPal
Shopify
Wix
Wordpress
Stripe
AWS
Cerner
Epic

Who else

— Sean D. Emory (@_SeanDavid) September 6, 2019

                                                                                                                          
Brian Feroldi portfolio and see comments and discussion

Playing catchup with my favorite Fools:

My top holdings in descending order by position size:$MA (7%), $MELI (6%), $AMZN (5%), $BKNG, $NFLX, $FB, $SBUX, $ISRG, $V, $PAYC, $AYX, $GOOGL, $GOOG, $SQ, $ADBE......

Rest here: https://t.co/yVLupW6xL1

— Brian Feroldi (@BrianFeroldi) September 6, 2019

                                                                                                                          
$NTNX Nutanix Thread

The article for Google to buy Nutanix makes sense from the angle that Google as a company has been more open to broader ecosystems. $ntnx

We know FOUR things:

— Sean D. Emory (@_SeanDavid) September 5, 2019

                                                                                                                          
$SPLK Splunk Thread

I've now got a position in Splunk $SPLK

Leader in analysing/monitoring machine-generated big data.

Revenue projected to grow > 20%CAGR over the next 5 years; TTM P/S = 8

— Puru Saxena (@saxena_puru) September 4, 2019

                                                                                                                          
$T AT&T Thread

Elliot $T Chart Porn

— Jerry Capital (@JerryCap) September 9, 2019

                                                                                                                          
$GOOG, $GOOGL Thread

"Given how $GOOGL's product suite is closely interwoven, it’s not that much of a leap to wonder if such a guarantee could soon extend to hotels" (cc: $BKNG, $EXPE) https://t.co/RHVKjN9hSJ pic.twitter.com/XpC8j8Mld4

— WTCM (@WTCM3) September 6, 2019

                                                                                                                          
$FISV Fiserv Thread

$FISV recently filed docs in Bessemer vs Fiserv lawsuit detail a litany of product and organizational failures at Fiserv. Their core software offering is a hackers dream, full of holes that go unrepaired. It is also their own customers nightmare. Bessemer pulled the plug on $FISV pic.twitter.com/3stg38qHSj

— Empty Boxes (@emptyboxguru) September 5, 2019

                                                                                                                          
What's your single largest holding? Read comments for ideas.

It's uncomfortable and taboo for many to talk about their personal investments (unless of course they had a big winner!)

Surprisingly, people are often candid with this question:

"What's your single largest holding"?

Y'all know mine...what's yours?https://t.co/uW7e7C6OsF

— Meb Faber (@MebFaber) September 4, 2019

                                                                                                                          
Interesting Global Warming Thread

Tweetstorm about Global Warming, or alternatively Human Induced Carbon Cycle Imbalance.

It is a correctable human problem with a realistic human solution that should be pursued, discussed, and most importantly heavy funded.

Note: I’m not a scientist but rather an enthusiast

— Long Short Value (@LSValue) September 5, 2019

                                                                                                                          
Thread on Michael Bury Bloomberg article

Looks like Burry struck a little close to the heart...https://t.co/lEbmcrm0qJ

— Nate Tobik (@oddballstocks) September 5, 2019