Mohnish Pabrai (Billionaire Investor): The $100 Investment Hack That's Disappearing Fast! The Fastest Way To Financial Freedom!

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Thursday, 21 August 2025 - 1 hour 47 minutes

Is copying Warren Buffet the fastest way to get rich? Mohnish Pabrai reveals the strategy to turn 1K into 10K in 30 days, quit your job safely, build passive income, and master the step-by-step formula millionaires actually use!

Mohnish Pabrai is a renowned value investor and founder of Pabrai Funds, who is best known for his successful implementation of Warren Buffett's value investing principles. He is also the bestselling author of books such as, ‘The Dhandho Investor’, which guides people on low-risk, high-return investing. 

He explains: 

⬛ Why building passive income is simpler than you think

⬛ How to build a business or portfolio with no risk

⬛ Why copying ideas made Mohnish a millionaire

⬛ How to find low-risk, high-reward investment opportunities

⬛ Why 99% of people follow the wrong advice about money

00:00 Intro

02:27 Mental Models for Business and Investing

14:08 Never Start a Company for This Reason, It'll Fail

16:26 How to Focus Your Sales and Pitches

20:53 The Importance of Attention to Detail

26:39 Why the Low Engagement in 9–5 Jobs

34:44 How to Reach Financial Freedom

43:10 You Have to Reach Out to Thousands of Places

45:28 Signal vs. Noise Ratio

47:48 Ads

52:37 The 3 Categories All Humans Fall Into

56:35 How to Scale Your Company as a Solopreneur

59:25 Mastering the Art of Hiring

01:01:29 Hire Slow, Fire Fast

01:03:00 Do People Build More Wealth from Business or Investing?

01:06:12 The Magic of Compounding

01:11:10 How to Invest in Indexes

01:14:01 Ads

01:16:10 Why Do They Call You the Dhandho Investor?

01:17:45 The Patels' Framework to Take Over the U.S. Motel Industry

01:21:09 Heads I Win, Tails I Don’t Lose Much

01:22:07 What Is the New Opportunity in the AI Era?

01:26:34 Business Moats

01:27:46 Loyalty Points Models

01:29:54 Is Apple a Good Investment?

01:34:55 The Importance of Making Fewer Big and Infrequent Bets

01:37:35 Is Day Trading Worth It? Can You Make Money from It?

01:38:16 Circling the Wagons

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