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Every macro investment cycle has a defining blind spot. I have seen these common threads throughout my 30 years of investing, first observed in the early days of digital television, the market initially treated video data as a simple sequence […]
Understanding Forex Through Capital Flows, Interest Rates, and Global Expectations For many Australians, the AUD/USD exchange rate feels mysterious. One month the Australian Dollar is buying 70 US cents. A few months later it is buying 62 cents. Then suddenly […]
Australia’s Backbone for the Cloud Future I began building my position in NextDC in 2013, right as I was pivoting away from a deep 15-year career in mining technology. At that point, my investment philosophy was shifting toward industry diversification—and […]
A Front-Row Seat to the Shift from Desktop to Cloud I made my first investment in Xero in 2015, but my interest began well before that—back in 2010, when I first came across the company as a challenger to MYOB. […]
Betting on the Backbone of the New Space Economy I initiated my position in Rocket Lab in December 2024, after years of quietly watching the evolution of space tech and telecom converge—and seeing one company consistently show up with pragmatism, […]
Betting Early on the Rise of Anti-Drone Defense I invested in DroneShield within three months of its IPO. At the time, it wasn’t a company on many people’s radar. But I’d been paying attention to the convergence of three macro […]
Owning the Oil Fields of the Internet I made my first investment in Google back in 2015—not because I was a tech evangelist, but because I’d come to deeply understand how powerful search really was. The genius of Google wasn’t […]
A New Bet on Restaurant Tech—With Eyes Wide Open Every so often, a company emerges that reminds me of one I’ve seen before—offering similar value, facing similar hurdles, and potentially riding a similar wave. Toast feels a lot like that. […]
A Hidden Gem in Mining Software Some businesses take you by surprise—not because you didn’t see the need, but because it’s hard to believe no one solved it properly until now. RPMGlobal is one of those businesses. Having spent over […]
A Different Kind of Investment—A Familiar Kind of Flywheel Ferrari isn’t my typical investment. I tend to focus on high-margin, software-enabled, platform businesses with extreme operational leverage and network effects. Companies like Microsoft, CrowdStrike, or Axon. But every now and […]
1. My Personal Conviction Began Long Before My First Trade Between 2017 and 2019, I subscribed to Netflix not just as a consumer—but as an early observer of a profound structural shift in media. My conviction wasn’t born out of […]
1. The Prompt for My Position: The AI Energy Tsunami My decision to invest in Oklo wasn’t just about nuclear. It was about anticipating the second-order effects of the AI revolution. In late 2024, I took a small but deliberate […]
1. A Journey from Scepticism to Strategic Conviction For many years, I stood at a distance from Tesla—not because I didn’t believe in its product or mission, but because I had deep reservations about its leadership style and governance. Elon […]
1. The Case for CrowdStrike Starts with the Network CrowdStrike is one of the most powerful network-effect companies in the cybersecurity space—and one of the most structurally important technology firms for the decade ahead. At its core, CrowdStrike is not […]
1. Why Axon Passes the “Snap Test” One of the most important mental models I use when assessing a company is what I call the “Snap Test.” It’s simple: If you snapped your fingers and the company disappeared overnight, who […]
1. How I Discovered MercadoLibre My entry into MercadoLibre (MELI)—Latin America’s dominant e-commerce and fintech ecosystem—came at a time when the world seemed to be standing still. It was April 8, 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
1. How I Discovered Booking Holdings I first heard about Booking Holdings during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, on a podcast that was unpacking the carnage unfolding in the travel and hospitality sector. Airlines were grounded, hotels were […]
1. How I Discovered AppLovin I first came across AppLovin through a Motley Fool podcast, where they were reviewing the company’s earnings call and unpacking the performance of its advertising technology platform. Given my background in commercial television, I’ve spent […]
1. How I Discovered Arista Networks I was first introduced to Arista Networks through an episode of a Motley Fool podcast, where they were breaking down an earnings call. The discussion sparked my curiosity—particularly given my broader research at the […]
1. How I Discovered Palantir I was first introduced to Palantir in 2021, shortly after the company went public. At the time, I already had a strong sense of the company’s DNA—having read Zero to One by Peter Thiel, Palantir’s […]
