2 Commas: The $multi-million exit show with Josh Comrie
Oct 28, 2026 · 31 min · 10 segments
In 1985 I was a kid with a paper round, and I used my spare cash to buy shares in a roller coaster. Or so I thought. That company, Rainbow Corp, turned out to be a corporate raiding vehicle that got…
Josh ComrieHost
Ron Briley is six years old, sitting quietly in the corner of his parents' living room where they've got visitors around.
Eventually, one of the adults wanders over and says, what have you got there, son? And almost without thinking, the visitor reaches into their own pocket, fishes out a handful of change, and hands him whatever looks interesting.
While he was still a schoolboy, he got himself an official certificate from the New Zealand Stamp Dealers Association and stuck notices up around school offering to buy and sell stamps in room four at interval.
Now people always tell the stamp story as a cute childhood quirk, but I reckon it's the R&D lab for his whole career.
Then he sat at his desk and sorted through the pile until he found the one stamp someone had misclassified.
And every so often, if he spotted a stamp with limited supply, he'd quietly buy up every copy he could find, corner the market, wait for the catalogue price to jump, and sell into the demand.
Buy a max bag cheat, sort through the rubbish to find the mispriced asset inside, sell the bits people actually want, because in a few years' time, annual reports are going to become his stamp albums.
Ron Briley is six years old, sitting quietly in the corner of his parents' living room where they've got visitors around.
Eventually, one of the adults wanders over and says, what have you got there, son? And almost without thinking, the visitor reaches into their own pocket, fishes out a handful of change, and hands him whatever looks interesting.
While he was still a schoolboy, he got himself an official certificate from the New Zealand Stamp Dealers Association and stuck notices up around school offering to buy and sell stamps in room four at interval.
Now people always tell the stamp story as a cute childhood quirk, but I reckon it's the R&D lab for his whole career.
Then he sat at his desk and sorted through the pile until he found the one stamp someone had misclassified.
And every so often, if he spotted a stamp with limited supply, he'd quietly buy up every copy he could find, corner the market, wait for the catalogue price to jump, and sell into the demand.
Buy a max bag cheat, sort through the rubbish to find the mispriced asset inside, sell the bits people actually want, because in a few years' time, annual reports are going to become his stamp albums.
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