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The YouTube video of him doing an Ebay Analysis [1] was very interesting I thought, both from a technical point of view and another look at his character. [1]

The YouTube video of him doing an Ebay Analysis [1] was very interesting I thought, both from a technical point of view and another look at his character. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFSf5YhYQbw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFSf5YhYQbw

amsilprotag 9y ago
The timing of this video is a lesson in humility. It's posted one month before a positive earnings report showing high growth in active buyers that gives the stock an ongoing 1.3x price increase. As far as I have viewed, Shkreli seems ambivalent, using vague heuristics to predict the future -- expectation of a yahoo-like slow decline, poor UX and discovery, and stiff Amazon competition. https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:EBAY https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:EBAY (click 5y) https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/08/11/why-shares-of-ebay-rose-33-in-july.aspx https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/08/11/why-shares-of-ebay...
jmcgough 9y ago
I watched a few of his early stock evaluation videos, really informative. Shkreli's a bit sociopathic, but he's wickedly smart, in his spare time he teaches himself javascript and organic chemistry.
tnecniv 9y ago
Watching Excel power users is really fascinating.
- shostack 9y ago
  I spend a good chunk of my day in Excel and some might consider me a power user. He's pretty decent, and I picked up a couple tips from him (using a graphical line object instead of messing with cell borders for something you might need to move frequently for example). There is definitely something mesmerizing though about watching someone conjure complex data onto a screen seemingly by magic and a few key strokes though. Although really it is just memorizing a ton of hot keys and a bunch of buried menu shortcuts.
- Unbeliever69 9y ago
  Oh yeah, watching his Excel You Tube video puts me in awe! Can't tell you how many people I've recommended that video to!
- kbenson 9y ago
  The first time I saw that video was when referenced in a HN submission about Excel use[1]. You might find it interesting. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12448545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12448545
- aerovistae 9y ago
  Yeah, I think he's better at excel than I've ever been at anything. Jesus.
- corobo 9y ago
  I think I got an epiphany watching this - is this what the missus sees when I'm tapping away at a bunch of (to her) garbled text flicking between text editor tabs, webpages and CLIs
- revelation 9y ago
  Lots of tapping, little happening really. This is what it must be like when your horizon starts and stops with Excel, you find yourself copying numbers from a SEC PDF to do the same model for the umpteenth time.
mattjack 9y ago
Thank you so much for sharing this, I've been looking for something just like it.
kylev 9y ago
Are you still inclined to trust his teaching? I mean... he's a convicted financial criminal and you're linking to his finance video.
eyeownyde 9y ago
He's doing something similar, looking at some companies in the video game industry right now, live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvArpDQHf-Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvArpDQHf-Y

amsilprotag 9y ago

The timing of this video is a lesson in humility. It's posted one month before a positive earnings report showing high growth in active buyers that gives the stock an ongoing 1.3x price increase. As far as I have viewed, Shkreli seems ambivalent, using vague heuristics to predict the future -- expectation of a yahoo-like slow decline, poor UX and discovery, and stiff Amazon competition. https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:EBAY https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:EBAY (click 5y) https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/08/11/why-shares-of-ebay-rose-33-in-july.aspx https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/08/11/why-shares-of-ebay...

jmcgough 9y ago

I watched a few of his early stock evaluation videos, really informative. Shkreli's a bit sociopathic, but he's wickedly smart, in his spare time he teaches himself javascript and organic chemistry.

tnecniv 9y ago

Watching Excel power users is really fascinating.

shostack 9y ago
I spend a good chunk of my day in Excel and some might consider me a power user. He's pretty decent, and I picked up a couple tips from him (using a graphical line object instead of messing with cell borders for something you might need to move frequently for example). There is definitely something mesmerizing though about watching someone conjure complex data onto a screen seemingly by magic and a few key strokes though. Although really it is just memorizing a ton of hot keys and a bunch of buried menu shortcuts.
Unbeliever69 9y ago
Oh yeah, watching his Excel You Tube video puts me in awe! Can't tell you how many people I've recommended that video to!
kbenson 9y ago
The first time I saw that video was when referenced in a HN submission about Excel use[1]. You might find it interesting. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12448545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12448545
aerovistae 9y ago
Yeah, I think he's better at excel than I've ever been at anything. Jesus.
corobo 9y ago
I think I got an epiphany watching this - is this what the missus sees when I'm tapping away at a bunch of (to her) garbled text flicking between text editor tabs, webpages and CLIs
revelation 9y ago
Lots of tapping, little happening really. This is what it must be like when your horizon starts and stops with Excel, you find yourself copying numbers from a SEC PDF to do the same model for the umpteenth time.

mattjack 9y ago

Thank you so much for sharing this, I've been looking for something just like it.

kylev 9y ago

Are you still inclined to trust his teaching? I mean... he's a convicted financial criminal and you're linking to his finance video.

eyeownyde 9y ago

He's doing something similar, looking at some companies in the video game industry right now, live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvArpDQHf-Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvArpDQHf-Y