You can invest the time to find and evaluate deals yourself, or rely on someone else. When Tom started investing in private equity, he figured he could work things out, but he didn’t know how to evaluate some of these companies. In oil and gas, for example, he knew high prices meant profits but not how to judge whether an operator was the right one.
So he relied on people who knew how, and invested alongside them. He didn’t always win, but his success rate was much higher. Over time we learned to evaluate certain deals ourselves, but even today, for a pharmaceutical or medical deal, we reach out to people with that expertise. Ticker Tape is now invested across pre-IPOs, hotels, apartments, vacation rentals, emergency rooms, a litigation funding deal and even a restaurant.
Key points
- Evaluating unfamiliar deals, like oil and gas operators, takes specialized expertise.
- Investing alongside experienced people raises your success rate.
- Ticker Tape still brings in experts for specialized deals like medical or pharmaceutical.
- The result is a portfolio spanning pre-IPOs, real estate, healthcare and more.
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