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institution2001–2014

Nomad Investment Partnership

Disciplines:
investing
value investing
capital allocation/long-term capital allocation

Summary

British investment partnership managed by Nick Sleep and Qais Zakaria from 2001 to 2014 — which produced outstanding returns by concentrating in Amazon, Costco, and Berkshire Hathaway for years — and whose annual letters are classics of investment philosophy.

Core Contribution

Proved that extreme concentration in a very few high-conviction 'scale economies shared' businesses — held for years without trading — could produce returns significantly superior to diversification, and that the investment thesis for Amazon at a very early stage was articulable as a 'scale economies shared' business.

Historical Influences

Warren Buffett and Berkshire Nick Sleep

Intellectual Lineage

British Investment Management Nick Sleep and Qais Zakaria

Contemporaries & Peers

Berkshire Hathaway Sequoia FundLong-term equity partners

Minds Influenced

Long-term investment community Amazon thesis articulation Founders podcast investment content

Intellectual Posterity

Nomad Letters Scale economies shared frameworkAmazon long-term thesis

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