Tom Gardner

You could have a table with the internet, right?

And then all of a sudden, you know, 15 years later, everyone's walking around watching videos on their iPhone.

So this is what's gonna happen with AI and companies need to be willing to not worry about generating rising profits right out of the gate.

But certainly, you know, the winners in the public markets, we are in a capitalistic system.

So the companies and organizations that use their capital effectively, that know how to turn diamond to a dollar,

are the ones that end up winning in our investment portfolios.

So I definitely like to look at our databases at The Motley Fool and all our Moneyball databases for the companies with the highest financial scores because they know how to manage their money.

They have a great CFO department and the ones that have the highest technology and AI scores in every industry because they're the ones that are being bold and creative and exploring what's possible.

So pair those two things together and I think you have some great investments out in front of us.

on our Twitter account at The Motley Fool, we'll run the survey and say, you know, if the S&P 500 were to fall 20% in the next six months, how would you feel about that?

And there's a surprising number of people that say they would feel terribly about that.

And that's bad news because the S&P falls 20% once every five years.

So that means

Every five years, 20% of likely the people following us at The Motley Fool and our members are going to be devastated by that.

We can't have that.

We can't set you up and make you think everything's going to be fine.

Just keep picking those coins up in front of the steamroller and everything will be hunky-dory.

It's not going to happen for 20% of people that are going to have an emotional negative feeling and are going to react to it.

And that means they're likely going to sell at the bottom.

And that is exactly what we don't want.