Wow

... year after year after year after year after year.

Like, we've millions and millions of people who, in varying degrees, lives have been changed because of that app.

We don't even want to know your email.

You just download it and use it.

It has a, a distinct value.

It finishes, it's like the appification of a, of a, of a course, but it just sits out there.

Negativity sells

We think they're a good buy, but that's only us.

My Wall Street spent years in different markets with regulators understanding what one thing can you do everywhere.

And there's variations.

We're down in Australia with getting legal advice and in the UK and America and of course in Ireland.

And the most important thing for us was to always respect those rules and make sure we're operating on the right side of the line.

And over the years, we eventually found the place where we belong.

And where is that? So where we belong is we are not a stock brokerage firm anymore.

And what brought

We think they're a good buy, but that's only us.

My Wall Street spent years in different markets with regulators understanding what one thing can you do everywhere.

And there's variations.

We're down in Australia, we're getting legal advice, and in the UK, in America, and of course in Ireland as well.

And the most important thing for us was to always respect those rules and make sure we're operating on the right side of the line.

And over the years, we eventually found the place where we belong.

And where is that? So where we belong is we are not a stock brokerage firm anymore.

And what brought about that

Please could you talk me through a little bit about what you were feeling at that point in time and what are those rules?

Absolutely, Harvey.

Thank you for having me.

I'm delighted to be here.

Yeah, I'm a lifelong stock investor and my journey began, I might, before I dive straight into answering your question, might give you a little bit of a backstory.

And it begins, well, there's like anyone who becomes an obsessive enthusiast on any subject, you can't really identify a starting point, like someone who plays soccer their whole life.

Sure, it is the first time they kicked football, but there's a kind of convergence of events that... fuels their career in soccer well for me i think the i was born in the right place at the right time in order to absolutely dedicate myself to stock investing i was studying physics in dublin in the early to mid 90s and i first encountered a u.s website called the motley fool fool.com when i was just born and it kind of caught my attention And while I was studying physics, I started to blog on the subject of stock investing.

So my questions frame more about not necessarily a particular like one investment, but what are the kind of general rules that you've learned from the great investors that you try and like, you know, live through in your life? And, you know, you can teach people on this podcast.