Mohnish Pabrai Lecture at Boston College

Distinguished Speaker Series
Professor Arvind Navaratnam
October 14, 2021

(00:00:00) - Introduction

(00:02:04) - Competition is For Losers, Peter Thiel

(00:08:25) - Rain Industries

(00:12:39) - Monopolistic business models, Amazon and Google

(00:17:14) - Redoing the Spaghetti code, AWS in business

(00:19:09) - A Whale only gets harpooned only when it surfaces, Warren Buffett

(00:20:00) - AWS, cloning by Microsoft and Google

(00:24:15) - Monopolistic characteristics of giant Chinese tech companies

(00:28:19) - Tencent (under)reporting style

(00:30:24) - Naspers business model, Koos Bekker

(00:40:58) - Better capital allocation by Amazon and Tencent

(00:43:37) - Tencent business model

(00:50:24) - The bazooka Model of Pony Ma

(00:57:33) - How I became a value investor

(01:02:22) - Chinese tech giants and political risk

(01:03:16) - Dakshana Foundation’s Education Model

(01:09:01) - Evolution of my investing style

(01:12:58) - Mohnish’s investing framework on start-ups

(01:17:31) - Ali Baba

(01:23:18) - Competence and edge

(01:24:54) - Change in Investment strategy due to Covid

(01:37:50) - Application of NLP (Natural Language Processing) in investing

(01:45:10) - Up and comers in the investment sector

(01:47:40) - Quality of Management

(01:50:29) - Book recommendations