As far as famous investors go, Roger McNamee is not a household name nor is he one of today’s best known investors, nevertheless he is one of the most successful tech investors of the last few decades. He started his career covering software companies at T. Rowe Price Associates (mutual…

I recently decided to learn more about cloud computing and wrote this article to consolidate my understanding of the basics. As background, I work in a finance role for a cloud computing company and did not study engineering or computer science at University. The main concepts covered in the article…

Working at Amazon has been unlike anything I’ve seen at any other company (in my relatively short career so far) — the pace of growth, the innovation, the scrappiness, and the potential. To better understand the juggernaut that is Amazon, what has differentiated it, and lessons of its success, I…

While working in Finance, managing my own investment portfolio, and researching investment opportunities I’ve come across a bunch of financial valuation ratios. Recently, I sat down to summarize 57 of them in one place to have a reference sheet for when I evaluate investments. Some ratios are more useful than…

This article outlines 10 corporate development capital allocation methods that I’ve witnessed while working in M&A banking and for tech companies. Additionally, I’ve listed 15 motivations for corporate (strategic buyer, not financial buyer) M&A activity. Authors such as Thorndike (The Outsiders) have demonstrated how capital allocation can be a major…

Joel Greenblatt is one of the most successful hedge fund managers and investors of the last 30 years. In one of Mr. Greenblatt’s books he outlines a relatively simple strategy for small individual investors that can help them achieve above market returns — investing in spinoffs. Stock spinoffs statistically beat…

I recently completed Fullstack Academy’s Flex Immersive coding bootcamp in New York City. …