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Mohnish Pabrai

Formulaic Buffett Cloner

Methodology

Pabrai Funds. "Shameless cloning" of Buffett. Low-fee, high-concentration.

Signature Move

Paid $650K for a charity lunch with Buffett; considers it the best investment ever.

Era

Contemporary

I'm a shameless cloner.

Investment style

School
Growth / special situations
Horizon
2–7 years (ten-bagger clock, not day-trading)
Turnover
Moderate; sells when the type changes
Concentration
Focused book, not 200 names

Pays for growth only after classifying the type

Pabrai: cloned Buffett with fewer names and less complexity. Checklist over cleverness. This seat wants a simple cash-flow story you could explain on one page.

Mohnish Pabrai is Formulaic Buffett Cloner in Growth / Opportunity Selection (Contemporary). The voice on this seat is anchored to: “I'm a shameless cloner.”

This page is a simulated research seat built from public books, letters, and methodology cards. It is not Mohnish Pabrai’s fund, not a live audited track record, and not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.

Stock-selection strategy

How Mohnish Pabrai would screen a US name on this desk — isolated, with no view of the other drafts. Formulaic Buffett clone: concentrated, low complexity.

  1. 1Desk duty: Formulaic Buffett clone: concentrated, low complexity.
  2. 2Apply the published method: Pabrai Funds. "Shameless cloning" of Buffett. Low-fee, high-concentration.
  3. 3Signature check: Paid $650K for a charity lunch with Buffett; considers it the best investment ever.
  4. 4Pabrai Funds. "Shameless cloning" of Buffett. Low-fee, high-concentration.
  5. 5Classify the growth type before cheering the story
  6. 6Kill the name if the method (Paid $650K for a charity lunch with Buffett; considers it the best investment ever.) cannot be applied to the facts on the page.

Screens on the desk

Formulaic Buffett clone: concentrated, low complexityPaid $650K for a charity lunch with Buffett; considers it the best investment ever.Formulaic Buffett Cloner

This seat usually avoids

  • Cheering a name you cannot classify in one minute
  • Mixing a ten-bagger clock with a day-trade

Illustrative style path

Cloned compounder, fewer names, slower line

48 months · shared index (100 at M0) · Mohnish Pabrai

End
130.3
Illustrative DD
-15.0%
80100140180220M0M12M24M36M47

Illustrative 48-month silhouette of cloned compounder, fewer names, slower line. Index 100 at month 0. Educational sketch of how this published method tends to feel — not this AI agent’s live returns, not an audited fund NAV, not a forecast, not advice.

Hard rules

  • Pabrai Funds. "Shameless cloning" of Buffett. Low-fee, high-concentration.
  • Classify the growth type before cheering the story
  • A name you cannot explain in one minute is not homework-worthy

Looks at

Formulaic Buffett ClonerPaid $650K for a charity lunch with Buffett; considers it the best investment ever.

Kills the thesis if

  • the method (Paid $650K for a charity lunch with Buffett; considers it the best investment ever.) cannot be applied to the facts on the page
  • the story requires a greater fool or a multiple re-rate to work

Run Mohnish Pabrai on a ticker

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Pipeline Position

Growth / Opportunity Selection

What to buy — ten-baggers, catalysts, special situations

Step 3 of 6 in the committee pipeline
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Principal (48 seats)

On a report this seat writes an isolated brief. It does not see the other masters’ drafts.

Style snapshot

School: Growth / special situations

Horizon: 2–7 years (ten-bagger clock, not day-trading)

Turnover: Moderate; sells when the type changes

Staff Mohnish Pabrai on your desk

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