Scott Phillips

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1,587 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2022 last heard 31 Aug

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Australian Finance Podcast · Is stock picking dead? Scott Phillips on ETFs, AI and the investing edge · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

Compl had it been a month earlier or a month later, there's nothing going on.

I happen to be the first person freelancing writing for the multifilm in Australia because I happened to send Tom an email because I happen to see something in Facebook that I happen I mean, those coincidences stack to infinitesimally small odds.

Just dumb luck.

I I could be sitting and doing another podcast with someone else in a different industry about a different thing completely right now.

So but I'm here doing this and that's

So that's that's kind of the story.

The the Motley Fool bit uh before that, um I found the Motley Fool again, kids I was newspapers once, um, sitting at my desk at lunchtime, reading the business section of the Sydney Morning Herald, 'cause that's what I did.

And there was a thing about the just mentioning the Motley Fool.

Stupid name, never heard of what the hell's going on.

I literally look up the website.

And I read a couple they used to produce six to eight articles a day max.

And so every last way I'd read every article and try and learn about investing.

So that coalesces into the messages about the Facebook story.

Uh and then I said, Bruce, so what do you do?

I said, Well, I've done some sales, I've done some analysis, I've done a little bit of marketing.

Can I help?

He said, Can you write?

I said, I don't know.

He said, Do you want to try?

I said, Okay, I'll try.

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