I watched the Tyson Fury fight on Netflix recently and pointed out the giant Netflix logos all over the stadium to my wife. She didn’t think twice about it. Of course Netflix was streaming it. That’s what Netflix does. But if you remember the days of red DVD envelopes showing up in your mailbox, that moment is kind of wild. And that’s not an accident. It’s leadership. We’ve already talked about economic moats—the defenses that protect a business. But defense alone doesn’t win

Understanding the business behind a stock is one of the core principles of how I invest today. It’s the difference between owning a ticker symbol and owning a real business. Today, I wanted to share what this actually means and how it helped make me a better investor. When I first started buying individual stocks, I didn’t think about the companies behind the stocks I was buying. Stocks were nothing more than random symbols to me. I didn’t view stocks as ownership in busines