Stock Stories, Vol. 10: Frosty Campfire, Fiery Stocks

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing, Invest, Rulebreaker, Stocks, Company, Growth, Stockmarket, Fool, Foolish

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Every stock tells a story; it takes humans to find the meaning in it. This week, five Fools gather around our suddenly snowy campfire once more to share remarkable stock stories featuring lessons on patience, transformation, and long-term success. From a legendary auto auction company to the footwear brand everyone underestimated, we hope these stories send off fiery sparks to ignite your interest in Rule Breaker Investing. Plus, a look back at Apple’s historic journey from its 1980 IPO to becoming one of the most valuable companies in history.

Host: David Gardner
Guests: Andy Cross, Kirsten Guerra, Jason Moser, Sanmeet Deo
Producer: Heather Horton

Companies Mentioned: AAPL, AXON, CPRT, CROX, ZTS

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0:00.0	Some people love superhero stories, enough to spend a billion dollars at the box office in a single weekend.
0:07.3	Others prefer sad stories.
0:09.5	We all have a favorite bedtime story.
0:12.1	Humans are a storytelling race.
0:14.4	From prehistoric campfires to today's billion dollar industries, celebrity gossip, sports, even the news, all of these stories shape
0:23.1	how we see our world. And investing, well, that's stories too. Every stock tells one,
0:29.7	a mission, a tagline, a roller coaster of highs and lows. Look across your portfolio. What you
0:35.8	really see are stories of innovation, resilience,
0:40.3	and wealth creation.
0:41.8	Well, for the 10th time, we gather round the campfire for stock stories.
0:46.3	This week, four Motley Fool guest star contributors.
0:49.1	Join me to share tales to make you smarter, happier, and richer.
0:53.5	Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
0:57.8	It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.
1:05.5	Welcome back. Yep, this week we're headed back to the campfire, the campfire around which we talk about the stock market.
1:12.7	Four friends and fellow analysts here at the Motley Fool join me to tell the story of some stocks.
1:18.7	Not story stocks necessarily, but the linguistic reverse stock stories.
1:24.9	It's something we've done on this podcast.
1:26.4	This is volume 10. And in fact,
1:28.9	all previous volumes in this series, I'm a little biased here, but I think they're worthy of a listen.
1:34.3	So anytime you're about to go on a hike, a long jog, maybe a camping trip, first, just Google
1:39.8	rule breaker investing, stock stories. You'll find our previous nine volumes, including the most
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