🗣️ Investor Talk #25: Brian Stoffel

Co-founder - Long Term Mindset

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: Brian Stoffel @Brian_Stoffel_
Age: 42
Residence/Country: United States
Invests since: 2009

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
I would never have guessed I'd end up where I am now. I eschewed anything having to do with finance as a youth, as I considered it the root of all evil. Coming out of college, I was squarely focused on becoming a public school teacher. That's exactly what I did - first in rural Iowa, then in inner-city Washington, DC. That life, however, was exhausting. My wife (also a teacher) and I took a year off and moved to Costa Rica. While there, I got very antsy. When I had to rollover our retirement funds, I started researching investment. That led me to The Motley Fool. After posting actively on their boards for a year, I became a contract writer. The rest, as they say, is history...

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆?
I am squarely focused on antifragility. That means, I want to own companies and stocks that tend to benefit from the vagaries of time, chaos, and the unexpected.