Samantha McLemore
The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Samantha McLemore reads as The Navigator because she treats irreducible uncertainty as a structural feature of markets, not a problem to solve. The Patient Capital Management founder and CIO pairs contrarian discipline with a DCF-grounded framework, charting positions across shifting environments without demanding a false fix on the horizon. Her emphasis on holding through big moves reveals the Navigator's rarest skill, staying the course precisely when conviction is hardest to sustain.
“At my core, I'm a contrarian value investor. Bill made the point: we don't know what the best values in the market are today because it depends on the future, and the future is unknowable.”
“The value of any business is the present value of the future free cash flows and growth is a very important input. We like to have a mix, and I think that helps the fund do well in different environments.”
“The big money are made in the big moves, and you need to hold those — holding them is even harder than looking for them.”
Masters in Business: “Finding Value Investments with Patient Capital's Samantha McLemore”
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