Wall Street Vision Investment Podcast

Sara Blakely went from running an illegitimate underground babysitting business to founding Spanx and becoming a billionaire in the process. The crazy thing is that she only invested $5,000 into Spanx – Talk about an amazing return on investment! With this trajectory she’s giving Warren Buffett a run for his money :) But her road to riches wasn’t easy. She faced tons of challenges along the way. S...

Naval Ravikant is a Venture Capitalist who's always been ahead of the curve. Based in Silicon Valley, he invested in companies like Uber and Twitter long before they were household names. But apart from being a shrewd investor, he’s also a great thinker. This guy’s like a modern-day philosopher. Being a reading machine, he consumes content from all sorts of different industries and connects the do...

Jesse Livermore was the best trader you’ve never heard of. Not only did he achieve billionaire status from his investments, but he also has a fascinating back story. His life played out like a movie, from humble beginnings growing up on a farm, to outsmarting mobsters at gambling parlors! Jesse's trading skills took him from a shack in Massachusetts to a mansion in New York. And, his fierce ambiti...

Did you know that at one point Volkswagen (VW) became the most valuable company in the world? It was a surprising event that caught virtually everyone off guard. You might be asking, “How the heck does a capital-intensive automaker become the #1 company in the world?”. Well, it’s a fascinating story that involves short sellers, hedge funds and a secret plan by the Porsche family to take over VW. I...

So everyone knows that Warren Buffett is an investing GOAT. I mean, his results speak for themselves, right? Okay, fair enough, but did you know that he still lives in the same house he bought in 1958? How many billionaires do you know who do still live in the same house they got in their late 20s! I have a simple money philosophy; If Warren does something, there’s a good reason for it. In this ep...

Maybe you haven’t heard of MJ, but trust me, his story is worth paying attention to. We’ll take a look at how he started (and later sold) a website where people could book limo services all over the country. Of course it wasn’t a straight path to success …it was a bumpy road along the way. One of the things we can learn from MJ are the core thought patterns that allowed him to become financially f...

Howard Marks is widely considered to be a top investor. He became a self-made billionaire and is the co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital. They manage $150 billion+ of assets so you know his firm is the real deal. In this episode we’ll cover: The epiphany that Howard discovered while investing in the "Nifty Fifty" stock era The key mindsets that any good investor should have What he did d...

Ed Thorp has a very interesting story. He used his physics and math skills to beat the casinos at blackjack and roulette before transitioning to finance. Then, he started two hedge funds that made record returns for investors. His 2021 net worth was over $800 million dollars - Wow! Check out this episode to learn more about his story. Special shout out to Aaron Fifield from Chat With Traders podca...

Carl Icahn is one of these investors who really thinks outside the box. He has a very impressive track record, and his 2021 net worth was over $17 Billion. The cool thing is that Carl came from a very average Brooklyn family to boot! In this episode we cover the story of how he used share buybacks as a catalyst to make a $2 billion return on his investment in Apple. If you have any comments/sugges...

Stan Druckenmiller is a superinvestor with an incredible track record - He compounded capital at over 30% for 30 years without a single down year. Those are GOAT stats!   Like every other investor, he's had some bumps along the road. In this episode we'll cover his $3 billion loss during the dot-com bubble. We'll also cover the biggest lesson that Stan learned from George Soros.  Audio S...

Blair Hull went from beating casinos at blackjack to starting up his own Wall Street firm. They went from one employee to operating on stock exchanges around the world. Blair eventually sold the company to Goldman Sachs for over $500 million dollars.  In this episode we’ll cover Blair’s amazing story and some great takeaways from it. I want to thank Aaron from the Chat With Traders podcast fo...

Linda Raschke might not be as known as Warren Buffett or George Soros. But she’s had lots of successes in the markets throughout the years, and even started her own hedge fund. At one point her hedge fund was ranked 17th (out of 4500) for having the best 5 year performance, so you know she’s the real deal! This episode is about how she got started in investing at a time when investing was a very m...

Bill Hwang of Archegos Capital had a 10x return on his money in less than 7 years. He went from a net worth of “just” $200 million to over $20 billion dollars. Then it all came crashing down when one of his investments turned against him -- causing a catastrophic chain reaction. Check out the episode to learn about Bill’s story. Music: https://pixabay.com/ Sources: https://www.focusonthefamily.com...

Our environment has a huge effect on our results. Guy Spier figured this out after the Great Financial Crisis stressed him out like crazy. That caused him to make a bunch of changes in his life to ensure that he’d optimize everything for investing success. In this episode, we’ll cover: [1:30] The story of how Guy dealt with the Great Financial Crisis [6:42] Mental blind spots in investing [10:02]...

In previous episodes, we’ve covered people who are primarily known as investors. Arnold is more known for his bodybuilding, acting and political careers -- but this guy is a super smart investor as well. He started from $0 and now has a fortune estimated to be around $400 million dollars. In this episode we cover some great investments that Arnold made. We’ll discuss his real estate deals, movie n...

There’s a Warren Buffett quote where he says that if he was starting investing today with a $1 million portfolio, he’d have a return of 50%. He’s one of the best investors of all time, so I’ll take his word for it! In investing you often hear about the big institutional investors having all the advantages. But there are some good things about being a small and nimble investor as well. Check out th...

Mohinsh Pabrai is a great investor that contributes a lot to the investment community by sharing lots of his ideas/ investment methods. In this episode we’ll cover his investment process. We'll discuss: Where he gets investment ideas How he chooses which ones to pursue and which ones to pass on His investment checklist - which is a really important part of the investment process. Timestamps: 1:32...

In investing it’s really important to separate out luck vs skill. Luck is fleeting, but skill is where investors can get better investment performance over time. Michael Mauboussin wrote a great book on the topic called “The Success Equation”. In this week’s episode we cover a few takeaways from the book and we discuss how investors can shift from relying on luck to using skill. We also discuss th...

Human beings have lots of “mental blind spots” that make successful investing hard. Dan Ariely wrote about a bunch of these in his book “Predictably Irrational”. There’s lots of great info in the book that shows you how these blind spots work. In this episode, We’ll explore two of these blind spots: Endowment Effect   Arbitrary Coherence   The Endowment Effect causes people to fall in lo...

Someone asked Warren Buffett about the best money advice that Warren has ever received. Warren’s answer was ‘Chapters 8 and 20 of the Intelligent Investor’. When an investment GOAT says something so specific, I take note! In this episode, I’ve dusted off my copy of the classic investment book to share those lessons with you. The lessons come down to: 1. Having a proper attitude toward markets 2. L...

If you haven't heard of him, Masa is a tech super-investor. He has an incredible story where his burning desire to succeed led him to: Finish high school in 2 weeks  Sell an invention for $1 million while he was an undergrad student  Start his own company (Softbank) that would become a Japanese tech behemoth   Invest in Alibaba 20+ yrs ago for a total return of 7,500x or 750,000% (w...

The Medallion Fund is the best performing fund in investing history. It has averaged over 66% before fee average returns since inception! Wowza! In this episode we cover the story of how Jim Simons started the Renaissance Technologies hedge fund in the late 70’s, and how they’ve achieved such amazing investment success through their Medallion Fund. Check out this episode to learn about the story o...

Short selling has been in the news a lot lately. Lots of big name hedge funds are feeling the heat form short selling "meme stocks". In this episode we look into the story of when David Einhorn (of Greenlight Capital) shorted Allied Capital. This is a crazy story that includes a PR smear campaign, stolen phone records and David's wife getting fired from her job. Wowza! It's a wild tale! Check out...

George Soros is known as the guy who broke the bank of England. He made over a billion dollars from his famous trade! Wowza! Check out this episode to learn how he did it. We also cover why currency trading is an incredibly hard way to make money. Sources: https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2015/07/07/forbes-flashback-george-soros-british-pound-euro-ecb/?sh=433eb21b6131 https://en.wikipedi...

On this show we've talked a lot about Warren Buffett's investment successes. In this episode I'm doing something a little different - we'll discuss his biggest investment blunder. This episode covers the story of the Dexter Shoe purchase. Buffett had high hopes and the investment seemed to be paying off ...before disaster struck. Check out the episode for the full story and key takeaways from it....