Are private investors just a bunch of happy gamblers who should let the “real deal” aka professionals invest for them instead? Idk, maybe, maybe not. Peoples own choice, right? But I have an opinion about how media undervalue private investors.
THREAD: STOP UNDERVALUE THE PRIVATE INVESTORS
The misunderstanding of private investors - primarily known as amateur investors when talked about - done by media and professionals is too much.
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Are private investors just a bunch of happy gamblers who should let the “real deal” aka professionals invest for them instead? Idk, maybe, maybe not. Peoples own choice, right? But I have an opinion about how media undervalue private investors.
There are many smart persons out there, which have a great skill to hold the same (or more ) knowledge and understanding than professionals.
Why? Because the world has developed so much and the information-level have changed💨
Earlier on you would not get access to accounting; it could be sent by Bloomberg terminal, send by post and even cost money. Now every accounting for every public company is available for free right after disclosure.
Professionals had exclusive access to the board, and even the founders, the professionals had access to industry experts and could connect the dots faster.
Now every interview with the company, blog post by an industry leader or a Q&A with founders is available realtime.
Professionals have a great network (and they really do), which earlier on was an edge. But now the private investors have a great network as well (thank you SoMe!). Look at Twitter, Reddit, Discord, Facebook groups... Crazy scale on crowdsourcing!
@chamath said it great here:
“r/wallstreetbets is now the largest hedge fund in the world.
Excepts it’s completely decentralized and entirely democratic.”
https://t.co/vgzpxrqTmz
r/wallstreetbets is now the largest hedge fund in the world.
— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) January 30, 2021
Excepts it\u2019s completely decentralized and entirely democratic.
I think the HF, banks and PE-people still have a significant advantage in speed and execution (and network)!. But if both parties – private and Professionals – are longterm, I think the edge a lot smaller than many think.
They live with their math-models, they have never been “hustling” on a company, they have never disrupted anything themselves. They have never tried to make a campaign on SoMe, getting funding, setting up a company from the bottom or dealt with a PR-crisis, etc.
The above is more like an entrepreneur, but it not limited to that. A software developer has (hopefully) more knowledge about this sector than an HF-analyst, which measure the sector by “old” financial-reports.
And common for the above is that they probably have a greater network than everybody else (=outsiders) inside their sector. That is an edge.
It is a little bit funny how every professional think they can judge a sector or company better than private. Still, the private can definitely not do a better job at investing than the Professionals. Ironic, right?
I think the media and Professionals undervalued how competent people are out there, how willing people are to share their info and work together. And least: How much information there are available.
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