About Shawarma Capital

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I’ve been in markets for a long time. Some of that time was spent losing money in ways that taught me more than any textbook. I blew up early ideas and learned about risk management the hard way. The last few years is where things finally started clicking. The noise faded, and a repeatable process took over.

I have an MBA, though I treat it more as a credential than a personality trait. The useful stuff I’ve learned about business didn’t come from classroom case studies. It came from running my own projects and managing real 8- and 9-figure budgets in the trenches. Capital allocation is capital allocation. You learn quickly how to spot the difference between a vanity metric and bottom-line reality.

I’m a value and growth investor in the same breath. I look for companies trading at stupid valuations relative to their actual trajectory - names where the market is asleep at the wheel or actively mis-pricing the forward picture because the company doesn’t fit neatly into a quantitative screener. Maybe the liquidity is too low for major institutions. Maybe they lack Wall Street analyst coverage. If something is printing consecutive profitable quarters, throwing off cash, and still trading at a fraction of its peers, I want to understand why. More importantly, I want to know what closes that valuation gap.

My sweet spot is micro and mid-cap names at discovery valuations with a specific 2–3 year catalyst window I can identify and track. That means I’m usually early. Sometimes painfully early. You have to be willing to look wrong for 18 months to capture a massive re-rating in year two. Conviction and patience are the only ways to survive that wait.

The areas I keep coming back to are specific: compound semiconductors, advanced packaging, defense autonomy, subsea systems, and high-performance compute infrastructure. I’ll occasionally look at fintech, but only when the numbers are too stupid to ignore. These are the unglamorous picks-and-shovels of the next decade.

What you get here are deep dives on names most people haven’t heard of, granular position updates when a thesis changes or a catalyst fires, and occasional commentary on market structure, liquidity traps, and retail psychology.

I write exactly the way I think - blunt sentences, zero hedging. If I don’t know something, I’ll say so. If I’m wrong on a thesis, you’ll hear that too. Markets humble everyone eventually. I prefer to own it upfront.