🗣️ Investor Talk #14: Eric Flaningam

Account Manager - Microsoft

Welcome to Investor Talk — where we interview successful investors to uncover their journeys, strategies, and the lessons they've learned. Get inspired by real stories and gain valuable insights to sharpen your own investment approach.

Every interview follows the same set of sharp, insightful questions — such as “What is your investment strategy?”, “What are your highest conviction stocks?”, and “What’s the biggest investment mistake you’ve made?”

In this edition, we have the pleasure of interviewing:

Name: Eric Flaningam @AITechInvesting
Age: 23
Residence: United States
Invests since: 2014

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Investing was my first passion. I started in 2014 and have studied constantly for the last decade. By the time I graduated high school, I was consulting most of my teachers on personal finance and investing. In college, I got deeply into writing algorithms to automate the value investing process. I decided to start publishing my research online earlier this year.

My career outside of investing has been finding the balance between business and technology. I studied engineering at Purdue with a focus on computer science. I interned as a software engineer before accepting a job in project/account management at Microsoft.

I work with a few of Microsoft’s large software customers deploying Microsoft’s tech. Essentially, I live in the cloud & enterprise software space every day. My investing research allows me to provide strategic insights to my customers. In turn, my customers provide me insights into broader trends in tech.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆?
My roots are in value investing, attempting to follow a path like Warren Buffett’s. A few years ago, I came to a realization that I needed to apply Buffett’s teachings differently, using my technical background, to gain an edge on the market. A few principles: