No, he doesn’t. He seems clever, but is clearly a sociopath. He has very few winners on his books, all of which were high-vol high-beta bets in a bull market, and almost wiped out his fund in a short period of time. There are so many better investing role models than Shkreli.
There was no way this guy could have survived, in fact Martin should have spent time learning a little politics too.
If you have the kind of skills, motivated enough, have ability to take initiatives and overall quality of human enterprise that this guy has you are bound to attract envy, spite and more importantly people just want to see the end of you for being a live anti thesis to their lives.
I have a feeling that people won't relax until they see Elon Musk meeting the same fate too.
No way. I don't know anyone that thinks that. What is your basis for thinking that?
And BTW, he's not that good at excel either.
And his ethics...
He is a seriously misunderstood figure. Have watched his YouTube videos too, not just the investment class but also his working sessions. Sure his excel skills are legendary.
But I learned a lot from him about skills, learning and mastery. Merely watching him work not only motivated me. But gave me tremendous perspective on time, its utility to life and how skills and knowledge need to work in general.
This guy has legendary skills in investing world. But apart from that he was always reading a book or two. He was doing organic chemistry, chess, playing guitar, learning programming and interests in wide variety of topics in economics.
He was first genuine example of 10k hour practice I have watched live in practice.
You also get to look into the mind of this guy, and see what's at the core of it, and you see most is basically 'knowledge and practice'.