"Obviously if you're wrong, you don't make money, but what most people don't realize is if you're right in consensus, you don't make money because the returns get arbitraged away." — Andy Rachleff
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The reason the intersection between successful investors and bien pensants is so small is that to succeed as an investor, you have to be aggressively opposed to groupthink.
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Replying to @paulg
It's also why brilliant VCs are often spectacularly wrong in politics. A "50-50 chance the Trump presidency “ends in disaster”" would be great odds in VC, where risk << potential reward, but not in politics.https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-maga-fan-peter-thiel-has-had-it-with-trumps-covid-19-response …
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Replying to @ThinkerNia
On the whole they got this one right. Only a tiny minority of them supported Trump.
12:53 AM - 4 Jul 2020
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