My First Million
My First Million
Hubspot Media
Mohnish Pabrai: This will save you 10 years of bad investments
1 hour 46 minutes Posted May 22, 2026 at 2:00 pm.
) Intro
) Mental models of the top 1%
) The mistress is always hotter than the wife
) Introduce Randomness in your life
)  Humans are poor at copying
) Take a simple idea seriously
)  Be and inch wide and a mile deep
)  Never use Excel
) Wait for fat pitches
) the stock market is like a church with a casino
) Paying $650,000 to have lunch with Warren Buffett
) The cautionary tale of Rick Guerin
) The inner score card
) The future of Berkshire Hathaway
) Mohnish’s best investment
) The hardest question
) How to beat the index
) Mohnish's stock picks for 2026
)  S&P 500
) life advice disguised as investing advice
)  Studying the greatest investors
) if you remember nothing else, remember this
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Episode 827: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Mohnish Pabrai to break down the mental models that made him a billionaire value investor.  
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Links:
Mohnish Part 1: This Guy Copy-Pasted Warren Buffett’s Strategy (And Became A Billionaire)
Mohnish Part 2: Go from $10,000 to $1M in just 3 years 
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