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MARKETS, STOCKS

Simon Erickson

Founder & CEO,

7investing.com

  • Founder and CEO at 7investing
  • Previous Senior Analyst at Motley Fool
  • MBA from Rice Business - Jones Graduate School of Business

About Simon

Simon Erickson is the founder and CEO of 7investing. He is one of the stock market's most forward-looking investors, focused on identifying disruptive innovation and finding developing trends before others may even be aware of them. Mr. Erickson previously worked for seven years at The Motley Fool, where he most recently served as lead advisor of Motley Fool Explorer. In this role, he ran an investment newsletter that profiled innovative trends, personally directed more than $1 million of funds into a real-money investment account, and managed a team of 22 people.

Simon's Articles

Coinbase (COIN) took the early lead as America’s largest crypto exchange by initially appealing to the early adopters of cryptocurrencies, observes Simon Erickson, founder and CEO of 7investing.
Trupanion (TRUP) is a leading provider of pet insurance. It’s helping people in North America and Australia relieve the financial stress that’s associated with bringing Fido to the veterinarian, asserts Simon Erickson, founder and CEO of 7investing.
It was big news last month for anyone who follows the semiconductor industry. IonQ will be coming public via SPAC, through a merger with dMY Technology Group Inc. (DMYI), reports Simon Erickson, founder and CEO or 7investing — and a participant in The Interactive MoneyShow Virtual Expo from May 11-13. Register for free here.
Snowflake (SNOW) is creating a more efficient cloud. Its cloud-agnostic, data warehouse as-a-service is integrated with Alphabet‘s Google, Amazon, and Microsoft and is processing more than 777 million queries each day, explains Simon Erickson, founder and lead advisor at 7investing.

Simon's Videos

Inspired by Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma, this session is a crash-course on how markets aggressively change over time. GE, IBM, Cisco, and Exxon are no longer the largest companies in the S&P. Disruptive innovation explains and even predicts how small companies can topple much larger incumbent competitors.

7investing founder and CEO, Simon Erickson, will lay the foundation of disruption and provide several publicly-traded companies serving as textbook examples. He will also share his thoughts on the sectors of the market that are actively being disrupted and how these could provide significant rewards for early and perceptive investors.

Here's some of what will be covered:

  • Overview and Examples of Disruptive Innovation
  • 5 Principles of How to Spot Disruption
  • Publicly-Traded Companies Exhibiting These Principles
  • Markets Undergoing Disruption Right Now
  • Key Takeaways for Investors