Michael Mauboussin

13 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 5, 2021 by Ben Gilbert · said 16 times in 6 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Oct 5, 2021 negative
Opinion
Gilbert: Venture Capitalists Historically Lack Financial Investing Fundamentals
“For the longest time, venture capital investors have not had a financial investing fundamentals background. They often come from being entrepreneurs and, you know, not, not necessarily the original VCs, but a recent trend. And so you have people that don't hav…”
Ben Gilbert Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 21:13 Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
Oct 5, 2021
Insight
Mauboussin: Relative Skill Gaps Between Top and Average Performers Have Narrowed
“What we've seen in domain after domain is relative skill gaps have narrowed. The difference between the very best and the average is less today than it was in the past.”
Michael Mauboussin Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 1:02:27 Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
Oct 5, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Mauboussin: Tesla's Stock Surge Saved Its Underlying Business Fundamentals
“So I think that it was not too many years ago that, that Tesla was sort of skating on thin ice in terms of finances and so forth. And then as a stock took on a life of its own, the stock went up a lot that allowed them to raise capital and get themselves on mu…”
Michael Mauboussin Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 45:54 Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
Oct 5, 2021 positive
Insight
Mauboussin: Journaling Probabilistic Forecasts Provides an Essential Decision Scoring System
“Probabilistically, if you can write down, I think there's an X percent probability. This is going to happen by Y date. It gives you the apparatus for a scoring system that can be super helpful.”
Michael Mauboussin Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 55:15 Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
Oct 5, 2021 positive
Insight
Mauboussin: Base Rates Are the Single Most Important Mental Model
“If you asked me to, if I could go back to my twenty-year-old self and say, whisper in the ear and say, there's one mental model to sort of put into your life, I would say base rates.”
Michael Mauboussin Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 53:10 Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
Oct 5, 2021
Insight
Mauboussin: Great Investors Are Differentiated by Temperament, Not Technical Skills
“What differentiates good to great investors has little to do with their sort of technical skills, like their ability to build spreadsheets or whatever, and much more about their temperament. And in particular, their ability to make decisions under some sort of…”
Michael Mauboussin Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 25:06 Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
Oct 5, 2021 positive
Insight
Mauboussin: Asset Prices Reflect a Distribution of Potential Probabilistic Outcomes
“Expectations investing, I should have been more explicit about it, is very probabilistic, right? So what we're really trying to do is think through scenarios. So The if-then kind of scenario. So we're getting knowledge that the price today is just one of many …”
Michael Mauboussin Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 15:07 Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
Oct 5, 2021
Insight
Mauboussin: High-Return Companies Should Maximize Investment Over Positive Free Cash Flow
“Some people think, oh, you want positive free cashflow. Well, the answer is not really. I mean, what you want is you, if you can invest at a high return, you want to invest as much as you humanly possibly can, right? That you have access to.”
Michael Mauboussin Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 22:52 Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
Oct 5, 2021 positive
Insight
Mauboussin: Investors Should Reverse-Engineer Stock Prices to Identify Expectations
“So the idea is to say a stock price, or it could really be any asset price, a price of an asset, but let's say a stock price reflects a set of expectations about future financial performance. So the first step is to say, what do I have to believe for this to m…”
Michael Mauboussin Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 12:09 Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
Oct 5, 2021
Insight
Mauboussin: As Average Skill Increases, Luck Ultimately Dictates Outcomes
“The paradox of Gil says, and activities were both skill and luck contribute to outcomes, which is most stuff as skill increases, luck becomes more important.”
Michael Mauboussin Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 1:01:38 Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
Oct 5, 2021
Insight
Mauboussin: Higher Market Volatility Increases the Value of Real Options
“So in an option, what you want is lots of volatility. You want lots of volatility, right? Which is sort of counter. So the more volatile the world is, the more valuable the option is.”
Michael Mauboussin Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 36:50 Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
Oct 5, 2021 neutral
Insight
Mauboussin: Investors Should Seek Niches Where They Are the Smartest
“If it's investing, the answer is try to find a game where you think you can be the smartest person, have the opportunity to be the smartest person in the room.”
Michael Mauboussin Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 1:22:04 Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
Oct 5, 2021
Assertion Supported
Mauboussin: Basketball Is the Least Luck-Driven Major Professional Sport
“Basketball is a sport that's furthest away from randomness. So the most essentially skilled dictates the outcomes.”
Michael Mauboussin Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 1:01:01 Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
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