Martin Shrikeli’s Guide to Financial Modeling

Martin Shrikeli is an extremely infamous businessman and investor, who received major backlash for increasing the price of the drug Daraprim from $13.50 a pill, to $750.00 per pill. He was also convicted in Federal court for securities fraud.

We generally understand that Martin Shrikeli is vilified, and has committed unjustifiable actions. But what is undeniable is his brilliance in understanding finance, and his unusual transparency when it comes to wanting to share information with others.

In the video shared below, he provides a thorough guide for users how to model projections for ($TSLA) Tesla stocks, how to analyze sentiment, and how to read quarterly financial reports to extract value from them. He released this video in 2015, and was able to correctly predict the massive upswing of Tesla stocks (as of January 2025).