" Tom Gardner" is one of the three founders of Motley Fool/The Motley Fool. He is currently Chief Executive Officer/CEO of The Motley Fool.

He is the author of The Motley Fool Hidden Gems newsletter, which aims to find the most promising small public companies for investment, and The Motley Fool Stock Advisor newsletter, in which he competes with his brother, David.

Gardner attended Brown University, graduating in 1990 with a B.A. with honors in English and Creative Writing. He later pursued two master's degrees at the University of Montana but left the programs to return to the D.C. area as The Motley Fool was gaining momentum. He received an honorary PhD in Humane Letters from Strayer University in 2000.

In 1993, he and his older brother David Gardner (The Motley Fool)/David Gardner started The Motley Fool as a vehicle for teaching people about saving and investment. The two had learned how to invest from their father. The Motley Fool actively uses the Internet to explore a subject undertaught in schools and universities, as well as to shed light on questionable business practices on Wall Street and in Corporate America. The website serves more than 5 million people around the world each month.

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It's going to get done in this session or it's not going to happen.

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Even when small-caps are overvalued -- there are 5,000 small caps -- you're still going to be able to find some great opportunities that people have either overlooked or don't spend any time studying.

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I actually have a Sleep Number bed and its great. But from what they've done from a business standpoint, that's what's brilliant.

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We're actually going, ooh, maybe we'll luck out.

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So they have almost no inventory relative to the sales they generate. It's much more cost-effective than a traditional retailer.

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