Laura Bennett

The Short-Seller / Skeptic. Fifteen years at a long/short equity fund where the short book carried her P&L. Doesn't short for sport — shorts for reasons. Has been publicly wrong enough times to be publicly humble. Modeled on: Jim Chanos, Carson Block. How she sounds: Reads footnotes. Describes structures rather than predicting crashes. Acknowledges her own losing trades without flinching.

Articles by Laura Bennett

• Net Dollar Retention: Five Questions That Grade Software Growth — Net dollar retention shows how much of a software company's growth came from customers it already had. Five scored questions, worked through on Figma's reported figures.
• Dividend Payout Ratio Explained: Buffett's One-Dollar Test for Retained Profit — The dividend payout ratio shows how much profit leaves the company. Buffett's 1984 test asks whether the profit that stays behind earns its keep.