Matt Ankrum

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All righty.

This is The Compound and Friends.

Yes, it is.

Episode 240.

The basic premise is, you know, Matt...

He's trying to leave the ultimate lottery ticket to his three daughters.

And it's a coffee can full of stocks that he hopes someday will be worth half a billion dollars.

Metaphorically.

Yeah, I mean, the old Western pioneers used to put their valuables in coffee cans and bury them under the ground somewhere and then come back to them a long time ago.

And so that's where the idea comes from.

The story and the hook for me as a reporter was Matt telling me a story a couple of years ago.

And I've known Matt for about a quarter of a century as a sort of deep background source.

You know, at 60 Minutes, we used to call them Marvin the Explainers.

And so I would always call up Matt and say, what's going on in Wall Street?

What's going on in corporate America?