David Dodd
American educator and financial analystWikipedia
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Oct 10, 2026
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This logic was later popularized by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd.
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It created the entire philosophy of value investing, which was most famously practiced by Warren Buffett.
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And after finishing college, he went on to study under Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing himself at Columbia University.
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Value investing refers to the practice of using fundamental research to identify cheap stocks, and Buffett had read a book by Graham and David Dodd, another prominent investor at Columbia.
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After failing to get into Harvard, Buffett wrote a letter to Dodd asking that he be admitted to study under the two famous investors, to which Dodd obliged, allowing Buffett to learn about stock analysis from some of the brightest minds in the field.
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In fact, Buffett went on to work for and develop a close professional relationship with Graham.