Scott Nations
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 16 Jan
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Prof G Markets · Your Brain is the Worst Investor in the Room — ft. Scott Nations · 16 Jan 2026
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Can you talk more about this one?
I find this fascinating and always seeing this today.
You've explained it perfectly.
It is a situation where people, investors,
are enamored of some well-known founder or business executive.
Often they're iconoclastic.
They're often a little bit outside the box.
They break the mold a little bit.
In 1999, in that period, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates would have been the two perfect examples of
And yeah, people buy either the product or the stock because they get this sense that in doing so, they're closer to, physically, emotionally, socially closer to Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.
And so they buy the product, they use the product, or they buy the stock.
And obviously, Bill Gates wants you to buy a Windows computer.
He wants you to use Windows.
He wants you to use a bunch of Microsoft software.
but he doesn't know that you're doing that, he doesn't know that you own the stock, not certain he particularly cares about that at this point, but people do fall for that.
And the poster child right now would be Elon Musk.
He's in the news, he's iconoclastic, he does things very differently, marches to the beat of his own drummer, whatever you want to say about him.
But he builds a neat car, and people feel like if they buy a Tesla, they're a little bit closer to him.
in sympathy with him.
And often they feel the same thing about the stock.
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