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Mohnish Pabrai

Dhandho framework, "heads I win, tails I don't lose much," cloning

Mohnish Pabrai manages Pabrai Investment Funds, which he founded after selling his IT services business. He is known for the Dhandho framework—seeking bets where downside is limited and upside substantial—articulated in his book 'The Dhandho Investor'. He popularised 'cloning', the systematic study and replication of disclosed positions held by elite value investors such as Warren Buffett.

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Frameworks

Attributed to Mohnish Pabrai

Mental models, principles, and operating frameworks extracted from sources where Mohnish is the credited author or speaker.

6frameworks
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Don't Sell the Compounder
When you own a great business, don't sell it fully priced, don't sell it overpriced — only maybe when it's egregiously overpriced.
Finance·from Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai
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Shameless Cloning
You do not need original ideas to make money — copy proven models wholesale and don't change the working part.
Strategy·from Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai
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The 2x4 Test (Does It Blow You Away?)
A great business hits you in the head with a 2x4 — usually because one input in the equation is free or anomalous.
Strategy·from Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai
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The Competitor-Tell Question
Ask a company's leadership which competitor they'd invest in if not their own — and which they'd short.
Finance·from Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai
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Total No-Brainers (Anomaly Hunting)
Auction-driven markets accentuate mispricing — wait for the weird thing that makes no sense, then bet big.
Finance·from Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai
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Upside Without Downside
Entrepreneurs don't take risk — they do everything in their power to minimise it. Heads I win, tails I don't lose much.
Finance·from Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai
Domains

Framework distribution

6frameworks
Finance4 frameworks · 66.7%
Strategy2 frameworks · 0%
Bibliography

Sources by Mohnish Pabrai

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Book
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The Dhandho Investor
Book
Appears alongside

Top neighbors of Mohnish Pabrai

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01
Allan Mecham
Arlington Value; quiet 30%+ CAGR, "Tao of value"
1shared list
02
Álvaro Guzmán de Lázaro
azValor; Spanish deep-cyclical contrarian
1shared list
03
Andrew Brenton
Turtle Creek; concentrated Canadian value, 20%+ CAGR
1shared list
04
Anthony Bolton
Fidelity UK / China; contrarian special situations
1shared list
05
Aswath Damodaran
NYU "dean of valuation"; story-to-numbers DCF discipline
1shared list
06
Ben Hunt
Epsilon Theory; narrative-aware value and meta-game
1shared list
07
Ben Inker
GMO; 7-year forecasts, valuation-driven asset allocation
1shared list
08
Benjamin Graham
Father of value investing; net-nets, margin of safety, Mr. Market (Security Analysis, The Intelligent Investor)
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Last updated
10 May 2026
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