Nick Crocker
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748 appearances
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard Jan 2023
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Because.
When I look at those things, they just don't make intuitive sense to me.
But there are some people that can understand an entire business through just a couple of lists of numbers, basically.
And that isn't how business makes sense in my brain.
But I would love to add that to my... There's an intuitiveness to what I do and a belief in people that drives every decision I make that I would love to layer on with...
that quantitative brilliance around analyzing financial statements.
And that would be the skill I would give myself overnight.
Yeah.
So, in those companies, there's not much to look at.
And of course, I do when it comes to board meetings.
But I was at the Soane conference the other day for my first time ever.
And if people don't know, it's a really...
It brings together a lot of the best portfolio managers in the country to pitch their best idea among other things.
And I remember thinking as I heard about all these pitches, I was like, I just can't judge whether this is a good pitch or not until I go and meet the CEO and the founder.
And for the most part, when people do that, they get what they call two hours with management at best.
We get access to management and then they talk about –
Management came from Harvard and they were used to run product at insert big company here.
But neither of those things are – well, first of all, the song and dance you get in two hours from management is not the real people.
And then the where did you used to work is just actually the dumbest filter that exists.
It has no predictive capacity whatsoever.
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