#13 - Johnny Shapiro - Info




Australian Investors Podcast show

Summary: If you can, read this article BEFORE listening: https://www.afr.com/business/inside-the-boiler-room-that-is-big-un-limited-20180301-h0wv2t My guest for this episode is Johnny Shapiro. Johnny is a Senior Reporter for The Australian Financial Review, Australia’s number-one finance newspaper. In recent years, Johnny and his colleagues at AFR have been responsible for reporting on the unraveling of some of our country’s highest profile corporate collapses. In this episode we talk about Johnny’s career, growing up with a freedom fighter for a grandmother and a gold trading grandfather and how his investigative journalism unravelled an ASX technology company’s darkest secrets. Finally, Johnny concludes with the story of how he missed out on a 60,000 bagger investment return. But first we start with a story…