Eric Schleien is the Owner and Portfolio Manager at Granite State Capital Management, LLC which is a boutique value investing firm located in Texas. Eric is also the host of The Intelligent Investing Podcast and The Eric Schleien Podcast. He also does consulting which you can learn more about here.

• 2:50 – How did you get in to this line of work?
• 8:21- Do portfolio managers work alone order they usually have a team?
• 11:44 – How did you develop the skill to find good opportunities?
• 13:46 – How did you raise enough capital to start?
• 19:19 – Where do you look to find deals?
• 24:23 – Look at deals that actually interest you…
• 26:20 – Knowing what to avoid…
• 28:11 – Why high growth stories are always so attractive…
• 32:12 – What is liquidity?
• 38:42 – Managers or Index funds?
• 50:59 – Rate of return is the most important thing…
• 55:31 – Counter intuitive things about investing…
• 57:17 – Low risk uncertain investments are a sweet spots.
• 1:00:00 – Why you should not get hung up on what types of assets you buy…