Howard Marks didn’t set out to become one of the most widely read thinkers in finance. When the Oaktree Capital co-founder wrote his first investment memo in 1990, he mailed it to a few dozen clients, and he heard nothing back for 10 years. That changed in January 2000 when he put out his memo titled “Bubble.com,” with his warning that investors’ blind faith in the internet was setting up a fall. “This was the first of my memos to engender any response from readers,” Marks said. “It describes the psychology of market bubbles in the context of a dot-com boom that would shortly become a dot-com bust when equity valuations fueled by excessive belief in the ‘the new, new thing’ fell back to earth.” Within months, the dot-com boom had collapsed, turning Marks into one of Wall Street’s most respected voices. Since then, Marks has written more than 160 memos exploring market psychology, risk and investor behavior. This week marks his 35th anniversary of his investment memos. To celebrate the milestone, Oaktree is releasing a digital archive of all Marks’ writings along with a collection of his 45 favorites. Buffett’s endorsement One of Marks’s early admirers was Warren Buffett. The Berkshire Hathaway CEO first crossed paths with Marks and his longtime partner Bruce Karsh when they both owned debt in the same distressed company. Buffett handed them his proxy during the restructuring, leading to a successful outcome and an enduring friendship. After Marks mentioned Buffett in one of his memos, he sent him a copy. Buffett replied with a note offering to endorse Marks’s future book. “He said, ‘If you ever write a book, I’ll give you a blurb for the jacket,’” Marks recalled. That became the catalyst for “The Most Important Thing,” which was Marks’ first book. Buffett delivered on the promise, writing that “when I see memos from Howard Marks in my mail, they’re the first thing I open and read. I always learn something.” No AI bubble yet Marks’ approach centers on reading the psychology of markets rather than forecasting them. That philosophy helped him identify the dot-com bubble, warn about excessive risk-taking in 2007, and call a bottom during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. Today, he sees echoes of those cycles, but he stops short of calling the current AI-driven market a bubble. “Valuations are high but not crazy,” Marks said in an interview with CNBC’s Sarah Eisen . “Expensive and going down tomorrow are not synonymous.” At 79, Marks shows no sign of slowing down. He said the memos are a way to remind readers and himself that markets are as much about behavior as they are about numbers. “Writing the memos is an absolute joy for me,” he said in a statement. “They serve as the vehicle through which I share my thinking with the investment community, allow me to connect with Oaktree’s clients and employees, and serve as my creative outlet. I plan to keep at it.”
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Check Point Recognized on Fast Company’s 2025 “Next Big Things in Tech” List for Securing Public Blockchain
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, today announced its inclusion in Fast
Company’s Next Big Things in Tech 2025 list. This prestigious recognition highlights Check Point’s innovation in securing and protecting public blockchains from emerging cyber threats.
“At Check Point, innovation isn’t just about keeping up — it’s about staying ahead,” said Roi Karo, Chief Strategy Officer at Check Point. “Just as Check Point’s original Firewall-1 secured the early internet, our blockchain solution protects the decentralized future, offering enterprise-grade, compliance-ready security for a safer blockchain ecosystem. We’re proud that Fast Company recognizes our mission to bring real-time threat detection and prevention to the blockchain, ensuring trust, transparency, and safety across the decentralized world.”
Check Point’s inclusion on the list highlights its groundbreaking work in real-time blockchain threat prevention — a first-of-its-kind capability now active on the Cardano mainnet, among others. This innovation marks a fundamental shift from reactive threat detection to proactive, in-chain prevention, protecting users, digital assets, and infrastructure before cyber attacks can occur. Check Point’s solution combines bold thinking with deep technical commitment to adapt enterprise-grade protection to decentralized ecosystems.
Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech 2025 honorees represent a diverse array of technologies developed by established companies, startups, and research teams. These innovations are featured for their potential to revolutionize the lives of consumers, businesses, and society overall.
“Next Big Things in Tech is both a snapshot of the most interesting tech of the moment and a crystal ball that predicts the next several years,” said Brendan Vaughan, Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company. “We’re excited to share this list with our readers, and we congratulate the winners for their vision and innovation.”
In addition to being honored on Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech 2025 list, Check Point has been recognized as one of the World’s Best Companies of 2025 by TIME and Statista, one of America’s Best Cybersecurity Companies by Newsweek and Statista and included on Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas 2024 list, among other accolades.
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About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a leading protector of digital trust, utilizing AI-powered cyber security solutions to safeguard over 100,000 organizations globally. Through its Infinity Platform and an open garden ecosystem, Check Point’s prevention-first approach delivers industry-leading security efficacy while reducing risk. Employing a hybrid mesh network architecture with SASE at its core, the Infinity Platform unifies the management of on-premises, cloud, and workspace environments to offer flexibility, simplicity and scale for enterprises and service providers.
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