investing

8 statements across 7 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 21, 2021 by Shaan Puri · across every show →

Everything said about investing, oldest first

May 21, 2021
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Puri: Never Invest Based on Somebody Else's Conviction
“Well, I would say like, you know, you never, you know, probably the best advice I could give is never invest on somebody else's conviction. Cause when they're wrong, it really leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Cause you didn't believe to begin with.”
Shaan Puri May 21, 2021 ▶ 1:07:32 Making Millions Improving Mobility & How to Beat LinkedIn | My First Million #184
Sep 8, 2021
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Puri: Outsized Returns Require Making Non-Consensus Bets
“If everybody agrees it's a great investment, then the price is baked in, right? So ultimately, if you want to have any kind of outsized return, you have to be betting on something that not everybody is agreeing with you is a is a good investment.”
Shaan Puri Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 30:10 Why Direct-to-Consumer Companies Are Awesome to Own | My First Million #217
Sep 4, 2023 negative
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Samir Chaudry: Creators Know How to Make Money, Not Invest It
“I think as creators, we're really good at generating money, but we don't know how to turn money into money. Because it's like. It's a totally different skill set. And then we don't know who to trust with that.”
Samir Chaudry Sep 4, 2023 ▶ 1:26:37 Samir Explains Why 99% Of Content Creators Fail At YouTube | Samir Chaudry Interview
Oct 17, 2023
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Pessimists are right more often, but optimists get rich
“Pessimists get to be right and optimists get to be rich. And so one thing we'll see when we go through these, I think is that the times where we said, ah, it's not going to work. Those are the ones where we have a higher hit rate, right? Because pessimists nat…”
Shaan Puri Oct 17, 2023 ▶ 4:50 Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508)
Apr 12, 2024 negative
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Pabrai: Investing as a team prevents finding truly contrarian bets
“He goes, if you have a team, everybody just centers around the safe picks that we can all agree on. And he's like, you know, you'll never find the truly, truly contrarian hated and unloved things. If you invest as a team, because it's not a team sport.”
Shaan Puri Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 8:18 I Spent 7 Days With The Richest Men In Texas
Sep 19, 2025
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Puri: Investors succeed through inaction while operators succeed through action
“Operator. It's all about action. You know, it's all action, action, action. You got to do stuff, right? You're trying to do as many things as you can be super productive as an investor. It's like, sit on your hands. Inaction is your friend. All the money's mad…”
Shaan Puri Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 37:58 How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing
May 11, 2026 positive
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Parr: Understanding human nature is more critical to investing than financial mechanics
“I think I realized that in order to be a world-class investor, finances are actually secondary to human nature. Financial trends change every decade, every handful of decades. Something will, some new thing will pop up, you know, SPACs are this new thing. So l…”
Sam Parr May 11, 2026 ▶ 3:57 I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to
May 11, 2026
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Puri: Great investors read heavily just to avoid overtrading
“It might be That one of the biggest leaks in investing is too much activity. And the remedy for too much activity is actually to just busy yourself with bridge and books and playing pickleball and doing other things so that you are not prone to just sitting th…”
Shaan Puri May 11, 2026 ▶ 19:21 I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to
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