About TechBreakdowns
TechBreakdowns is a journal on building a tech portfolio I can hold forever.
I’m Ash Anderson. By day, I’m a software engineer. By night, I’m an enthusiast of the financial markets, and I’ve been writing and talking about finance for a very long time. I started on MotleyFool.com before it was Fool.com, and I’ve written on Seeking Alpha, where I had high ratings that can be verified on TipRanks.
What this publication is
This is investing and technology. It’s not chasing the high-growth, high-beta names. It’s not YOLOing into the latest thing. It’s a well-thought-out path inspired by the likes of Worldly Partners, the investment firm known for buying and holding companies on 20-year-plus timeframes.
The goal is low stress. I want to look at every part of a company and feel confident we can sleep safe at night investing in it. Then I want to do that with technology companies, because that’s where I spend my days and where I think the most interesting long-term opportunities live.
What you’ll get
Deep dives on individual companies, walking through the business, the moat, the risks, and whether it fits the hold-forever criteria.
A running watchlist of large-caps that could form the foundation of a portfolio (think Taiwan Semiconductor, Intuitive Surgical, Meta) alongside smaller names worth turning over (Rocket Lab, AST SpaceMobile, Symbotic, CoreWeave).
Earnings coverage for the companies we follow closely, so you can track how the portfolio is performing over time.
News coverage when something material happens to a name on the list.
The criteria
Every company I seriously consider has to clear a short list of requirements:
We could see ourselves holding it forever.
Ideally, it’s strictly in tech.
Because we’re holding it forever, we’re a bit price insensitive.
Ideally, it’s not a behemoth that everybody already holds.
Rule #4 gets broken fairly often. Some foundation names are too good to leave out, even if everyone owns them.
A note on what this isn’t
This isn’t financial advice. I’m not a registered advisor. I’m a software engineer who loves tracking companies and writing about them, and this is my journal on that journey. Do your own research, size your positions based on your own situation, and make your own decisions.
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