Awesome. Thank you for sharing that anecdote from Brian.
Even cooler that it's from Uccmal...so many posters and people, all from a place started by a dude in Canada - Sanjeev. CoBF is definitely a unique meeting spot.
Even more impressive is how it has continued on in so many iterations with the common thread of Parsad's stewardship through all markets and ups and downs.
I do like the aspect of the random paths we all follow before we run into CoBF and then it changes our lives meaningfully. I would be in the camp for the lack of direct marketing, but I'm 100% in support of whatever Parsad views as feeling right.
Nostalgia....so many names and personalities over the years...ericopoly, uccmal, dengyu, Buffett_groupie, MrB, picasso and many many others.... It's been a treat meeting some of these folks over the years at various watering holes (AGMs...). Such an eclectic group of people but bound by a strong desire to find that next company or dive deeper
It's also funny when some of those posters interwine into your personal life through connections that you couldn't imagine possible.... it's funny but sort of cool. Somehow my wife knew about the board/value investing/a poster when I made a slide deck to explain what I was planning on doing with my life... She was like I know about all that stuff, and I was like no way, and I guessed who she knew...small fucking world...
Makes me realize I need to get back up to Toronto for the AGM one of these days...