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Five years and two weeks ago to the day, we wrote to our clients, “Great businesses have endured the Tech Bust, 9/11, and The Great Recession (GFC), and they will eventually emerge from the 2020 coronavirus panic.”  We now face a new set of circumstances, but once again believe great businesses will endure. 

On January 4th, 2010, we set out to do two things, “Make Money and Have Fun.” We recently passed the 15-year anniversary for our firm, and we are on the path to achieving both. A seed investor with $1mln on day one now has an account with over $5.7mln net of fees. To use private equity parlance, we achieved a multiple on invested capital (MOIC) of 5.7x. Over this period, numerous macro events and amplified market volatility caused market participants to abandon their processes. Yet, we’ve never wavered from our strategy to recognize that investor psychology and market volatility create investment opportunities. As we said in our first-ever letter to investors, “our strategy will remain unchanged regardless of economic developments.” The same applies today.

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On February 15th of 2008, I had the opportunity to visit the headquarters of Berkshire Hathaway for an Omaha Q&A session with Mr. Warren Buffett followed by lunch.  It was a privilege to co-host our Texas grad school classmates for a two hour sit down with the Oracle of Omaha.