What We're Reading ~ 10/30/19

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution [Gregory Zuckerman]

How TikTok holds our attention [The New Yorker]

Inside the Nordstrom dynasty [NYTimes]

Is Amazon unstoppable? [The New Yorker]

Schwab kills commissions to feed its flywheel of scale [Intrinsic Investing]

Learning from Costco's Jim Sinegal [MastersInvest]

How Irish butter Kerrygold conquered America's kitchens [Bloomberg]

TheRealReal: the internet's luxury consignment shop [The New Yorker]

On the importance of humility [NYTimes]

With summer over, will hard setlzer's popularity go away? [LATimes]

The strange revival of vinyl records [The Economist]

On filtering the barrage of financial news [CFA Institute]

What We're Reading ~ 10/23/19

Blackstone CEO's new book: What It Takes [Stephen Schwarzman]

Taking a look at Domino's [Timberwolf Equity Research]

Quick new interview with Peter Lynch [Fidelity]

Denise Chisholm on historical sector valuations [Barrons]

With DataXu buy, Roku unveils big ad ambitions [Digiday]

At Costco, everything resonates with the consumer [Retail Dive]

Disney, IP, and returns to marginal affinity [Matthew Ball]

Apple Pay and the future of mobile payments [PYMNTS]

Technical overview of Elastic (ESTC) [Motley Fool]

Inside Apple's long, bumpy road to Hollywood [Hollywood Reporter]

20 countries that will face population declines [Business Insider]

What We're Reading ~ 9/27/17

Your tolerance for investment risk is probably not what you think [WSJ]

Is value investing dead? Depends on how you measure it [WSJ]

What do the best investors do that the rest don't? [Behavioral Value]

We're going to need more Lithium [Bloomberg]

Mastering three strategies of organic growth [McKinsey]

DaVita: Warren and Charlie's excellent insurance gambit [SIRF]

Old interview with Chuck Akre - never sell the gems [Value Research]

The history of Sears predicts nearly everything Amazon is doing [The Atlantic]

Don't believe the headlines, traditional retailers are thriving online [VentureBeat]

How Kirkland Signature became one of Costco's biggest successes [WSJ]

Altaba's endgame could reward investors nicely [Barrons]

Netflix's Sarandos aims to build the next great Hollywood studio [Bloomberg]

Our entire credit bureau system is broken [The Verge]

Snapchat's influencers are fleeing to Instagram for money [Bloomberg]

How successful people make decisions differently [Fast Company]

What We're Reading ~ 4/12/17

Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms [David Evans]

Beating the odds when you launch a new venture [Harvard Business Review]

Consolidated learnings: What I think I know about investing [Medium]

Inside Blue Apron's meal kit machine [Bloomberg]

Is it last call for craft beer? [NYTimes]

Americans haven't been this optimistic about stocks for nearly two decades [Bloomberg]

The gap between sentiment and certainty is stunning [WSJ]

On the ramifications of Brexit [Arp Investments]

How Canada completely lost its mind over real estate [Macleans]

Why Costco (COST) loves store sales: you try shipping a tub of mayo [WSJ]

Q&A with Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky [Fortune]

Mobile video to grow almost 900% by 2021 Cisco predicts [Fierce Wireless]

Inside Verizon's go90, a video app mix between YouTube and Netflix [Business Insider]

Your focus should be on saving money, not investment returns [Collaborative Fund]

Instagram (FB) 'influencer' marketing is now a $1 billion industry [MediaKix]

Quick video on Zara: How a Spaniard invented fast fashion [YouTube]

What We're Reading ~ 3/1/17

The Tao of Charlie Munger [David Clark]

Excellent write-up on Costco (COST) [Scuttlebutt Investor]

YouTube bets it can convince cordcutters to pay for TV [Bloomberg]

Also, YouTube tops 1 billion hours of video a day [WSJ]

The man who broke Ticketmaster [Motherboard]

Cinemark is undervalued [Forbes]

A pitch on Grupo Televisa (TV) [Barrons]

Grit: a complete guide on how to be more mentally tough [James Clear]

Why facts don't change our minds [New Yorker]

Long-term investing in an age of small attention spans [Safal Niveshak]

How Indian families took over the Antwerp diamond trade [Qz]

The fast rise and slow demise of daily deals company LivingSocial [Washington Post]

3G Capital's purchases and their profit margins [Economist]

Amazon's antitrust paradox [Yale Law Journal]

Student debt in America has hit a new record [Bloomberg]

Sequoia Fund Investor Day Transcript 2014

Today we wanted to highlight the transcript from Sequoia Fund's investor day earlier this year.  This is old (6 months ago) but is still worth reading due to the in-depth color they provide on their investments and the fact that they're long-term shareholders so most of the positions still remain in their portfolio.

Positions they talk about include Valeant Pharmaceutical (VRX), Allergan (AGN), Google (GOOGL/GOOG),  Mastercard (MA), TJ Maxx (TJX), Omnicom (OMC), IBM (IBM), Ritchie Brothers (RBA), Fastenal (FAST), Costco (COST), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A/B), O'Reilly Auto (ORLY), Rolls Royce (LON:RR), Precision Castparts (PCP), and more.

Embedded below is the Sequoia Fund's Investor Day Transcript: 



You can download a .pdf copy here.

And given their long-term focus, we'd also point you to Sequoia Fund's 2013 investor day transcript as well as Sequoia Fund's 2012 annual letter if you haven't read those either.