Interview #107 : Sam and Joel (Chess Capital)
European small caps
For this issue we have the pleasure of interviewing Sam Hollanders and Joel Schols from Chess Capital.
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Hi Sam and Joel, thanks so much for taking the time out to do this interview.
Can you please tell readers about your background, and how you got involved in investing?
Joël has thirty years of experience in ICT, fifteen of which as a managing partner of Newtel. Following the merger with sister company Nextel, he exited through the sale to Telenet in 2018.
After this he went looking for a party to manage his money. He missed the “investing like an entrepreneur” spirit with wealth managers and decided to manage his own money.
That is how Joël met Sam
Sam gained experience as an entrepreneur in his parents’ four multimedia stores, which he later owned together with his sister.
He has been actively involved in investing since 1999, but only began consistently applying the principles of value investing, from 2004 after his first few years of learning.
Sam wrote an extensive course on the best practices of value investing, which formed the basis of his book “Double Your Money in Five Years”. Since 2011, he has been a full time investor, analyst and chief editor of a stock newsletter
Why did you decide to launch Chess Capital? And whom do you manage funds on behalf of?
We believe in value investing and investing like a business owner would. After Joël took Sam’s course on value investing, we met a few times and decided to take the leap. Wanting to build a fund like business owners, with open communication and using the Buffett Partnership principle of zero management fee.
We manage our own money, that of our family, friends, ex-business partners and now also people in the second tier of that network. We know every investor and see them as partners in our journey.