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Christopher Mayer
Co-founder and portfolio manager, Woodlock House Family Capital 2018-present; previously newsletter writer at Agora Financial
100 Baggers turned Thomas Phelps's buy-and-hold arithmetic into a working screen and has outlived its publication cycle as a reference for long-hold investors.
5 books of their own · 1 letters · 107 articles
Books they wrote 5
· 2015 · Subtitled Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them; expanded edition 2025.
· 2018 · Subtitled A Guide to Clear Thinking About Wall Street, Investing, and Life.
Letters 1
web.archive.org/web/2022/www.woodlockhousefamilycapital.com/post/woodlock-house-q4-letter
Woodlock House Family Capital is a private fund that does not engage in general solicitation, so its partner letters are not published as a series; one exception, a public 'Woodlock House Q4 Letter', was posted on the firm blog. That blog is the substantial body of Mayer's writing, and it has been taken down: woodlockhousefamilycapital.com now serves only Home, Books, Contact, Disclaimers and Social Media, and every /post/<slug> URL returns 404. About a hundred essays published roughly 2018-2023 survive on the Wayback Machine and are readable through web.archive.org; they are listed under articles. His earlier newsletter Capital & Crisis / Mayer's Special Situations, published by Agora Financial, was subscriber-only and is not publicly archived.
Articles and essays 3
- Q&AWoodlock House Family Capital, 2023
- Volatility Takes a BiteWoodlock House Family Capital, 2021
- Change, Forgetting, Pizza & HappinessWoodlock House Family Capital, 2021
Blog posts 104
- 100 baggerWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- 100 baggers the lost chapterWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- 100x almost thereWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- __q aWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- _ouchWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- A contrarian buy in shippingWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- A good filter for finding winnersWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- A preview of what s comingWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- A safe place to hideWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- A tale of bubbles pastWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Alfred korzybski and warren buffettWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Another conglomerate breakupWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Anything happenedWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Are you trying too hardWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Art imitates the stock market sixty years on wall streetWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Beating the market with less volatility other thoughtsWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Best investing books you ve never heard ofWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- BreatheWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Bucky a 235 bagger and volatilityWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Buying and sellingWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Change forgetting pizza happinessWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Cheap with a catalystWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- City cinderellaWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Compounding coffee cans and moreWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Cutting dividends to create valueWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Don t do these 5 thingsWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Downside protectionWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- DrawdownsWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Earnings updates the best new book i ve read this yearWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Epictetus india and patienceWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Extinction survivalWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Financial history as teacherWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Fire and iceWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Five best books for finding big winnersWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Footnotes to phelps 100 to 1Woodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Greetings from st moritzWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Hold fast tips for 100 baggersWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Hot water banks sapolskyWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- How many stocks should you ownWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- How they did it a uk 100 baggerWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- How to live the rest of your lifeWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Ibkr annual meeting notesWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Ideas for 2020Woodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- International outsider ceosWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Investing abroadWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Invisible moatsWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Jim simons and the rise of mathematiciansWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Just six stocksWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Make haste slowlyWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Making sense of insider buys sellsWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- My favorite real estate stockWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Never seen anything like itWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Notes from omahaWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Notes from stockholmWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Notes from torontoWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Notes from value invest nycWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Oil competition fallout moreWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- On music value and guessingWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- One of my favorite ideasWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Online brokers nyc reits music industry moreWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Pandemic investing ideas to considerWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Position updates more recommended readingWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Price s growth stock philosophyWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Q a finding 100 baggersWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Q a part 2Woodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Quality shareholdersWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Real estate as inflation hedgeWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Recommended readingWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Reflections on 100 baggersWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Reflections on howard hughesWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Stockpicking dying artWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Superforecasters orWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- TechnopolyWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The alchemy of stock market performanceWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The anatomy of a 100 baggerWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The art of executionWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The best book i ve read this yearWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The best businesses to ownWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The best investors of all timeWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The big pictureWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The century clubWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The coffee can portfolio and 100 baggersWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The first rule of compoundingWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The greatest industry in the history of mankindWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The horse storyWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The lindy effectWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The medium is the messageWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The next berkshire hathawayWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The quest for better explanationsWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The scarcity of industrial landWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The structure of a 33 bagger and countingWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- The wisdom of kWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Thoughts on the coronavirusWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Three questions to think about nowWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Trade for show hold for doughWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Two stocks near 52 week lowsWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Vivendi notes bagehotWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Volatility takes a biteWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Wetherspoon buybacks free cash flow machine owner operatorWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- What index funds can t doWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- What is it reallyWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- What makes a great investorWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- What s a good track record sats spinoffWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)
- Whats it all aboutWoodlock House Family Capital (firm blog)