May 2026 Mailbag: Divvy-Pops, Jellybeans & the Kids of Kopachuk
Written by Motley Fool Staff for The Motley Fool -> In this episode of Motley Fool Rule Breaker Investing , Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner revisits the power of doing less, holding more, and letting great companies keep surprising you. He also discusses: To catch full epi
In this episode of Motley Fool Rule Breaker Investing , Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner revisits the power of doing less, holding more, and letting great companies keep surprising you. He also discusses:
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David Gardner: What does a giant Nvidia dividend increase have to do with a spiffy-pop? Is GameStop secretly trying to become something the world has never seen before? What's the best lesson to learn from Warren Buffett? After all these years, could a middle school teacher in Gig Harbor, Washington, quietly be helping create the next generation of Rule Breaker investors? Didn't I really guess twice the number of jellybeans in a jar because I used the wrong geometry formula? It's a delightfully Motley set of questions, stories, and reflections sparked by your notes throughout the month of May. It's now the last Wednesday of the month, so it's time for your mailbag. Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing .
Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing . Let's look back over the month that was for this podcast. We kicked it off on May 6th with 10 years later, five winners in a Thinking World. It was the first podcast I did this month, joined by my longtime sidekick, Tim Beyers from The Motley Fool. We went back exactly 10 years to the week. To revisit five stocks I picked in May of 2016 and score what actually happened over a full decade. More than just the scorecard, though, we explored why certain companies won and lost, what changed, what didn't. Why a 10-year holding period remains to me, anyway, it's a beautiful and underappreciated time frame to score yourself with your investing. Though I will say, I do prefer it when we beat the market with my samplers, and this one did not.
