🗣️ Investor Talk #36: Neil Rozenbaum

YouTube Finfluencer - Couch Investor

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: Neil Rozenbaum @Couch_Investor
Age: 30
Residence/Country: Belgium
Invests since: 2016

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
I first got a taste of investing when I was in high school. I had to build a fictional portfolio and compete in a competition run by KBC (one of the biggest banks in the country). All was going extremely well, I was in the top 100 until I got slapped in the face by a geopolitical/macro event: 2011 Egyptian uprising. I had no idea that something in Egypt would greatly impact my portfolio. Lesson learned.

Only in 2016 did I start investing my own money. I learned that you learn 10x more when you’re personally invested than by taking finance classes in university (been there, done that). I started investing by buying the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF $VOO, and some Buffett stocks but I quickly realized that this wasn't the way for me. I am young and I don't think that buying Coca-Cola $KO (a great company) would get me closer to my financial goals. This made me look into the big tech companies of today, the services that I use daily, and more speculative stocks.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆?
As Warren Buffett said, don’t lose money.