Our Values

This article is work in progress

Discussion: Community Values

Our core Values

• We strive for excellence. We strive to iterate, learn and improve every single day.
• We take ownership. We take ownership for our work and focus on impact.
• We are transparent. We are transparent to build trust and meaningful relationships.
• We search collective success. We work together to find great investment opportunities and help each other grow.

We strive for excellence

The excact naming of this value is currently discussed in detail here Our values:Discussion/First value

We strive for excellence. We strive to iterate, learn and improve every single day.

We strongly believe in the need to constantly learn and grow in order to excel at any activity. This mean you should

• Choose a field of focus for which you have the deepest passion
• Be curious to explore that field in as much depth and detail level as possible
• Think about ways to improve how things are currently done
• Be willing to experiment and fail
• Reflect on failures and look for key learnings
• Be resilient. Never give up (this is only possible with passion)
• Get Feedback and ask for help
• Don't fear criticism or dumb questions
• Prioritize accelerating your learning curve
• Know when others have stronger capability in one area
• Work together with others to leverage each others strength
• Suggest your tested approaches to others
• Finish tasks as complete as possible. Don't give up easily.

Appliance of the value in the Investmentwiki

• Detailed Analysis. We analyze sub categories in detail to reach fundamental conclusions.
• Eventually we want to understand and document everything.
• Collaborative Improvement. The InvestmentWiki will always be built upon to reach excellence. It will become an incredibly detailed collection of investment insights.
• Choose your areas of expertise and write articles about it
• Keep improving your articles
• Invite others to improve your articles
• Improve the articles of others and help to make them better (You don't have to ask. Articles can always be reverted back if the change is not liked)
• Ask others to write an article about their topic of the expertise (If they excel at one topic e.g. writing)
• Contribute to discussions in the Discussion section
• Push articles which are not perfect or ready. Work on them over time.
• We help to get the right opinion and publicly disagree if we believe an assessment is wrong.
• Be precise and don't hesitate to correct entries to the Wiki when you Spot mistakes.

What we hope to achieve in the Investmentwiki with this method

• Constant improvements of articles
• Specializations on core strength (Not everyone has to be a good writer or a good any topic. People focus on what they are best at others improve it)
• Increasingly in-depth analysis of topic (e.g. Companies) as people keep adding informations to it and create subpages for more in detail discussions and assessments
• Increasingly sophisticated investment models as people discuss factors, weighings and make improvements to them
• Quality control by the community. Analysis is backtested, challenged, improved. Writing is improved. (It is no shame if your writings and analysis get challenged and improved)
• More innovation as people explore ways of doing and improving things and suggest them
• More people achieve mastery in their areas

We take ownership

Ownership. We take ownership for our work and focus on impact.

• The value that all contributors pride themselves.
• We take ownership and responsibility for all our topics.
• We are reliable.
• We take responsibility for our results and acknowledge our mistakes and admit when we have been wrong.
• We are thinking about the areas of greatest impact we can have and pursue those areas.
• We are acting autonomously to are large degree in pursuit of the common goal.
• We are trying to cover as many problem solving steps as possible to provide an as complete as possible solution.
• We are thinking about which Objectives would lead to the greatest impact and are responsible for hitting key results.
• We "own" our articles, research, processes, goals and are responsible for the outcome of our work.
• We strive to solve problems and work as independently as possible and build processes over which they have full control.
• We are structuring our work by ourselves
• We are taking initiative to add useful parts and push the topics we want to contribute
• We are making constant improvements to our processes and work
• We are as effective as possible
• We make sure the quality of the work is high
• We help others follow the same high standards

Appliance of the value in the Investmentwiki

• Concentrate on which articles have the highest impact to the understanding of our portfolio
• Monitor changes to articles you wrote in order to make sure they are high quality
• Think about how research can be as efficiently and easily readable as possible be integrated into the article.
• Get in contact with newcomers who changes your article
• We are taking ownership for our predictions and mistakes by thinking them through very well doing everything in our ability they are as accurate as possible.
• We are taking ownership for our predictions and mistakes by pointing out mistakes and learnings from them
• Ultimately you are responsible for investment decisions you take. It is in your responsibility. Do you own research.

What we hope to achieve with this value

• People act independently in pursuit of our common goals
• People take responsibility for their work and the quality of it

We are transparent

Transparency. We are transparent to build trust and meaningful relationships.

Trust is the basis for great relationships and safety. Transparency is the basis for trust.

• We believe in the value of openness, honesty and transparency in order to build trust and meaningful relationships.
• 100% commitment to be the most transparent investment funds ever established.
• We clearly communicate our current state of knowledge. Both internally and externally
• We clearly communicate problems in the work, if they arise
• We have the backbone to voice our believes and disagree even when it is uncomfortable and exhausting.
• We clearly communicate the things we are not happy about
• We clearly communicate timelines, absences in order to allow good coordination
• We clearly communicate goals, project descriptions, progress
• We clearly communicate and map out open questions and work areas
• We are as realistic as possible in our predictions

Appliance of the value in the Investmentwiki

• We are extremely transparent about our knowledge state, underlying reasons and confidence level when it comes to Investment decision
• We never "pitch" an investment case, make it larger than it is or concealing potential difficulties with it
• We never "pitch" ourselves as investors concealing gaps (which always has to exists by definition) in our knowledgebase
• We never conceal risks and difficulties

Old description: Transparency is at the core of our vision "to organize all investment informations and make them accessible for everyone." We love open knowledge and a free and open discourse in the struggle for the truth. (= Models which match reality). Transparency is also the basis for trust and enduring relationships.

In our believe it is good to be open admitting not knowing something or something went wrong as this speeds up the learning curve and opens possibilities to get help by the community.

We are transparent and speak up if problems exist and help with critical suggestions.

We search collective success

Collective success. We work together to find great investment opportunities and help each other grow.

• We are dedicated and committed to reach common goals in investing. esp. in time sensitive situations.
• We are loyal and have integrity.
• We help each other to find and make great investments and hopefully repeat successes of the past (Link to track record)
• We form a strong network that is helping each other in all regards
• We help each other grow to become better investors
• We help each other as good as we can in pursuing our long term goals (e.g. long term career advancement)
• We make sure that every/loyal community member profits from contributing to the wiki in one form or another.
• We value loyalty and make sure that loyalty is more beneficial over the long run than disloyalty.
• We give people the credit they deserve.
• We help each other to grow and develop in any area in which excellence is pursued
• We give clear feedback
• We give each core members the opportunity to present complementary investment strategies to the community.
• We are treating each other they way we want to be treated ourselves.
• We are appreciative and respectful
• We think about Win-Win situations
• We are open to newcomers

Appliance in the the InvestmentWiki

• Onboarding and learning cycles are very long therefore long term cooperation and loyalty is key

We believe that only as a team and large community we will be successful in revolutionizing how investment research is done and achieve our mission of "accelerating innovation and productivity by helping the world to make better investment decisions."

Therefore a strong sense of community is of paramount importance to us.

Community is more than achieving our mission together. It is also helping each other grow to become better investors, advance our careers and find great investment opportunities together.

It is about being successful together and part of something great.

If in doubt we are welcoming and helpful.