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In this episode, Mik and Brian discuss the concept of FOMO investing and how to develop a principled approach to investing. They explore the current state of the marke...
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In our first guest interview on FOMO Investing, we speak with biotech investor and Substack writer Seedy19 about his controversial bearish thesis on Moderna.
Moderna's personalized cancer vaccine has generated considerable excitement, with investors increasingly treating the company as a potential breakthrough platform in oncology. But how much of that promise is already reflected in the stock price?
Berkshire Hathaway is entering its next chapter: Warren Buffett has handed the keys to Greg Abel, but the playbook still looks familiar — buy great businesses, stay patient, keep dry powder, and swing hard only when the fat pitch arrives. We unpack Berkshire’s massive cash balance, its surprising new Alphabet position, what Buffett’s move into Google says about updating your beliefs, and why the real lesson for FOMO investors may be the least exciting one: patience, position sizing, and the discipline to do nothing until the opportunity is obvious.
Intuitive Surgical is one of the great zero-to-one business stories of the past 30 years. The company helped create robotic surgery, built a dominant ecosystem around its da Vinci platform, and quietly became one of the world’s most successful medical-technology companies. Today, it has thousands of systems installed around the world, millions of annual procedures, and a recurring-revenue engine built around instruments, accessories, and service.
Abivax became one of June 2026's wildest biotech stories: a potential best-in-class drug to treat ulcerative colitis, a scary “cancer” headline, a violent selloff, and then a dramatic rebound after Part 2 safety data helped reframe the risk. We unpack how the market may have misread the cancer risk and why deep context matters in biotech investing and taking advantage of wild swings.
Is SpaceX's $1.75 Trillion IPO more like Project Hail Mary or Interstellar? We unpack the SpaceX IPO from a valuation lens. We synthesize the highly varied perspectives from the ultra bulls (Gavin Baker), the bears (Jim Chanos, Nicolas Owens, and Suryansh Sharma - Morningstar), and the astute observers (Ashwath Damodaran, aka "the dean of valuation").
Michael Burry is back, and this time the newsletter gang is paying monthly. We explore his shift from hedge fund manager to Cassandra Unchained newsletter writer, the ideas that stood out to us, and his bearish take on Nvidia and Palantir in the middle of a very frothy AI market.
Brian and Mik unpack a live activist situation at Humm Group, a small Australian non-bank lender now facing public pressure from investor Jeremy Raper, who owns ~6% of the company and is pushing for a vote on board change ahead of a February shareholder meeting....
In this year-end episode, Brian and Mik reflect on FOMO Investing—its origins, how the podcast has evolved, and where they hope to take it in 2026. They revisit key themes from the past year, including quantum computing and GLP-1 biotechs, and share plans for the year ahead...