RE: Reade Griffith interview16 Nov 2022 18:33
Gunto, on fire today! Thoroughly enjoyed listening to the interview.
I know very little about Polygon and Reade Griffith and this has really improved my understanding of how they work. I feel more comfortable with them having such a large holding in SNG than I did before listening to it.
I liked this bit around 33 minutes:
"when we invest we make a bet, you're our bet. We're going to partner with you. We're entrepreneurs like you, we know what you're going through. In the first 5 years of you building your business we're going to be way more valuable to you than you are to us, but if you're successful you're going to be way more valuable to us than we are to you in the second 5 years and beyond... we let people run their own businesses, we'll be on their investment committee but they control it, they control the brand... we try to partner with people who are number ones in what they do. We don't want a bunch of number twos reporting to us. We want number ones to go out their and build their business...and we'll support them."
Also, interesting towards the end him talking about Tetragon. You can buy this on the London Stock Exchange (TFG.LN) and it's trading at a significant discount to its net asset value. I just checked on the BT and the last NAV recorded (30th September) showed it trading at a whopping 66% discount, i.e. if they sold all underlying stock held, it would be worth $28.20 per share, not the $9.55 it is trading at right now. Of course, investment trusts and the like can trade almost permanently at discounts but still interesting.