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Miss the substack :( Anyways, to add to your list of investors, Alex Karp ran an investment office (built from a $1m inheritance) while being a research associate at the Sigmund Freud Institute and after doing a PhD at Goethe Univ

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Not to mention Roberto Mignone of Bridger Capital, who studied classics at Harv and drew a comparison between striving for encompassing knowledge of classical texts and in-depth research on companies

Lastly, Philip Fisher was known to translate Latin and Greek texts in his spare time

Source for above: Katherine Burton's Hedge Masters (Bloomberg Press)

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Thanks, these are excellent examples. (One day I'll get back to writing a weekly post, but other priorities have prohibited it --- or perhaps I'm just too lazy)

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