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Paul D. Sonkin (New York, NY) is a portfolio manager at GAMCO Investors / Gabelli Funds. He is co-Portfolio Manager of the TETON Westwood Mighty Mites Fund, a value fund which primarily invests in micro-cap equity securities. Sonkin has over 25 years of experience researching small, micro and nanocap companies. Prior to analyzing stubs, spin-offs and micro-cap companies for GAMCO, Sonkin was for 14 years the portfolio manager of The Hummingbird Value Fund and the Tarsier Nanocap Value Fund. He holds an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics from Adelphi University. For 16 years, Sonkin was an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he taught courses on security an ...more

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	Pitch the Perfect Investment: The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street by Paul D. Sonkin (Goodreads Author), Paul Johnson 4.31 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond by Bruce C.N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 4,424 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Congratulations to the winners of the Pershing Square Challenge Stock Pitch competition and Artisan International Value Stock Pitch Challenge

Pitch the Perfect Investment scored two new assists in helping Columbia MBA students Laurent Liu, K.Y. Wong, and Mingming Wu with their win at the 12th Annual Pershing Square Challenge and Alvaro Pasquin with his win at the 3rd Annual Artisan International Value Stock Pitch Challenge.

K.Y. Wong, in discussing how Pitch the Perfect Investment helped his group win the Pershing Square Challenge, said,

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The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better

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