#64 Brett Gardner: Buffett's Early Investments

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Brett Gardner is an investment analyst at the US-based investment partnership Discerene Group and, since about a week, a published author with his book Buffett’s Early Investments. The focus of our conversation is Brett's book, where he has uncovered a few of Buffett’s investments in the 1950s and 1960s that until now have been rather unknown.

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This episode was recorded on October 9, 2024. The video was unfortunately not recorded due to technical issues.

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Episode Chapters

(00:00) Introduction by Eddie & Niklas

(01:34) Introduction to Brett

(04:21) Buffett’s Early Investments

(08:47) How the investments were selected

(15:30) Marshall-Wells: The first investment

(20:52) Philadelphia and Reading

(27:36) Walt Disney Productions

(36:10) Can Buffett compound $1 million at 50% per year?

(39:18) Brett’s current role at Discerene Group

(40:53) Two lesser-known book recommendations

(45:37) Final remarks

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Books Mentioned

A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Malkiel
The Making of an American Capitalist - Roger Lowenstein
The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham
Snowball - Alice Schroeder
Buffett’s Early Investments - Brett Gardner
Poor Charlie’s Almanack - Peter Kaufman
Damn Right! - Janet Lowe
The Halo Effect - Phil Rosenzweig
Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt
The Crux - Richard Rumelt
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr - Ron Chernow

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Companies Mentioned

AT&T
Coca Cola
British Columbia Power
Marshall-Wells
Philadelphia and Reading
Walt Disney Productions
American Express
Berkshire Hathaway

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More on Brett

Twitter/X - @brettgardner_10

LinkedIn - Brett Gardner

E-mail - [email protected]

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