Worldly Partners takes a multi-decade, first principles approach to investing. Our approach is one of rigorous analysis, underpinned by independent and proprietary research contextualized by our deep study of business history. We seek to be very long-term, value-added partners to our portfolio companies.
Arvind Navaratnam founded Worldly Partners in 2020 and has over 20 years of investment experience spanning both the public and private markets. Arvind has taught a class on capital allocation, business history, and multi-decade competitive advantage for 15 years to MBA, JD, and undergraduate students.
He holds a BA and BS from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he previously served on the global alumni board. Growing up, Arvind lived in six countries across four continents and is a citizen of three.
As part of our investment process, we conduct deep research studies into some of the highest returning companies in business history to understand the sources of their extreme multi- decade success. Certain studies have been made publicly available (as featured on the Acquired Podcast) and are provided below.
Worldly Partners was founded on the investment principles of Charlie Munger. We compiled an archive of his public speeches and works here.
Learning Together. Building Together. Compounding Together.
Our goal at Worldy is clear and audacious: the relentless pursuit of knowledge, trackable extreme multi-decade returns based off business history.
We make different choices from the industry norm where the average hold is < 6 months, incentives are heavily misaligned, and there is no “owner mentality.”