Macro Trends, page-155

Hi Kobbie. Last night I wrote a long reply to you (like a super long detailed story) and for some reason it just didn't want to post. I thought about separating it into separate posts. Anyways, reading over it again, I realised there was just way too much personal info to share and felt somewhat unsafe and uncomfortable to share it.

This is what I was thinking. Integrity is important to me. I'm a psychologist, I've helped multiple start ups generate new ideas for growth as a growth hacker and I've built a media tech company with a strong team (my former business partners are running their own small companies now) that was acquired by a NASDAQ and ASX listed company 5 years ago. Let's just say they absolutely destroyed my baby by wasted shareholder money on growth strategies that was opposite to my own. Once I left, I took a few years off, invested in private companies and dabbled in some ASX stocks. Investing in public listed companies is harder than early stage companies. Because public listed companies, you don't have direct access and a rapport with the team. To be there watching them work, you can also provide strategies and ideas. Anyways, losing the passion as an entrepreneur with no new ideas and bored staying at home whilst my friends are doing their thing in the start up scene, like Canva, SnowPony, AirTasker etc etc. I went back to work in mental health again.

HC was a place I personally disliked from the first day I signed up 3 years ago. It goes against everything an entrepreneur's way of thinking is. There is just so much noise here. The moods of people can cloud your judgement. Entrepreneurs look for trends and are future focused. We prefer to be stimulated by ideas and get a lot of joy out of connecting these ideas. If Steve Jobs was alive today and Apple was a new Aussie company, he would never come to HC. That's the way I saw it before. I saw it through the lens of an entrepreneur. But now as an active investor mainly looking for long term investments with company traits I like, I decided to contribute to this forum after that panic event that claimed a lot of losses for everyday Aussies and caused a lot of heartbreak. Currently I'm only looking at 2 stocks this year. That's ISX and PAR. On PAR's forum, I just read, BioTech is not a strength of mine and there is a wealth of intelligent posters with daily updates that satisfies my hunger to learn more.

Anyways, I have this in my head. I want contribute what I read, watch and listen to daily that is relevant to ISX and the overarching FinTech development. I want to be an expert in all things FinTech. To me, this is like watching history in the making. And all the other amazing posters like McExplorer, Green Hornet, theplyee, sicilliavin, NashaNasha, Dineen, FraserJC, soarus, Delphs, HCuser3, hopper, strikerX, Fourex, Huge Jaxxon, Xander01, bagavond, SNCKY etc etc (I'm sure I missed a few) who I've learnt so much from, I see their role providing information from angles where those strengths are not mine. I prefer to research thought leaders and idea to understand why growth strategies have been implemented. I guess over time, I hope we can all be a team to inform ourselves, current investors and new investors.