Mohnish Pabrai: Spotting the winners of tomorrow

In this interview with MIT’s Brass Rat Investments, Mohnish Pabrai explains why young people have a clear advantage in identifying emerging trends and investment opportunities due to their proximity to cultural and technological shifts.

He highlights historical examples such as the early adoption of Facebook at prestigious universities, which were indicative of broader societal changes.

He advises young investors to capitalize on their firsthand experience with new products and services, suggesting that making a detailed list of these could reveal potential future investments. This list, particularly of publicly traded companies whose products they use, could become a valuable resource for spotting companies likely to grow significantly over the coming decades.

So what I’m saying is the thing that you should do make a list of every product and service that you have consumed in the last couple of years. So what brand of clothing are you buying? What perfumes are you buying ? What online services are you buying?

[…] make a list of all the publicly traded companies that are products and services that you are using today. And if you fast forward 10 or 20 years and just look at that list there will be 50 baggers from that list.

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