Invest Like The Best
Episode 205 Cornerstone Investing Insights
Invest Like The Best

Episode 205: Cornerstone Investing Insights

Invest Like The Best

Episode 205

Cornerstone Investing Insights

Mario Cibelli is the managing partner of Marathon Partners Equity Management. We cover how his firm figured out Blockbuster's DVD volume, why investors should visit distribution center, and how a few "cornerstone" investing insights have led to many of Marathon's long positions.

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[00:02:34] – Doing a deep dive into the early days of Netflix

[00:06:50] – What was impressive about Reed

[00:07:34] – Visiting Netflix’s distribution centers early on and the lessons of those visits

[00:10:44] – Lessons learned from other distribution centers

[00:17:52] – What helps create good luck for a company

[00:19:17] – Why tequila was fun to investigate

[00:25:09] – Why tequila is different from other hard liquors

[00:27:40] – Finding the cornerstone insight in a company

[00:29:20] – What he’s learned about media-driven personalities and WWE

[00:34:30] – Lessons in starting a media company and developing IP

[00:39:00] – Having to battle activist shareholders in business

[00:42:43] – How the rate of return in deep investigations has changed over his time

[00:45:08] – Kindest thing anyone has done for him

Cornerstone Investing Insights

Introduction

Patrick
My guest today is Mario Cibelli. Mario is the managing partner of Marathon Partners Equity Management, a long-biased, concentrated investment firm that he's run for over 20 years. In our conversation, we discuss how his firm figured out Blockbuster's DVD volume and told Reed Hastings and Netflix about their numbers, why visiting a company's distribution center can be an edge for investors, Mario's interesting foray into the world of tequila, and how a few "cornerstone" investing insights have led to many of Marathon's long positions. I hope you enjoy my great conversation with Mario.

Netflix and Blockbuster

Patrick
So Mario, you and I discussed a place to begin this conversation a couple of days ago, and I think it's hard to pick something better than an amazing story that you were a part of, that's been written about publicly in the book Netflixed. And I think you've never told the full story from your perspective in a setting like this, so I just think it's an amazing wedge into a conversation about doing extremely deep dives on companies. And I'll just leave it there. I'll let you begin with the Netflix DC story. You tell us how this started and walk us through it.

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