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Strawman Investor Conference

Andrew Page

The live Melbourne event was a lot of fun, giving us the chance to connect with over 50 of our members and share some interesting investment ideas. It was also great to put a face to a few familiar Strawman usernames.

For those that couldn’t make it, you can check out a couple of the presentations on Youtube.

Owen from the Rask Group gave an excellent outline of how he invests and pitched ProMedicus (at 10m 30s) to attendees. 

Andrew outlined the idea behind Strawman investing, and the importance of destroying your own ideas. His stock pitch was for Nanosonics (at 32m 30s). 

You can see that here:

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