Who is Shawarma Capital?

Deep Value in the Hard Stuff.

I’ve been in markets for over a decade. 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 7-8 years is where things finally started clicking. The noise faded, and a repeatable process took over.

I have an MBA, though I’ll be upfront that 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 very 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. These are names where the market is either asleep at the wheel or actively mispricing 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 makes that valuation gap close.

My sweet spot is micro and mid-cap names trading at discovery valuations. I look for a specific 2-3 year catalyst window I can identify and track. That means I’m usually early. Sometimes, I’m 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 highly specific. Compound semiconductors. Advanced packaging. Defense autonomy. Subsea systems. High-performance compute infrastructure. I also look at the occasional fintech name, but only when the numbers are too stupid to ignore. These are the unglamorous picks and shovels of the next decade.

What you’ll get here are deep dives on names most people haven’t heard of. I provide granular position updates when a thesis changes or a catalyst fires. You will also get the occasional rant about market structure, liquidity traps, or retail psychology.

I write exactly the way I think. That means blunt sentences and zero hedging. If I don’t know something, I’ll tell you I don’t know. If I’m wrong about a thesis, you’ll hear about that too. Markets humble everyone eventually. I prefer to just own it upfront.