I was having breakfast with one of the biggest hedge fund managers. He was telling me his latest ideas. Then he stopped chewing and said, “you know what. You’re a remora.”

I didn’t know what that was. The food was practically spitting in my face. “A remora is a fish that is a blood-sucking leech”.

But he added, “But I mean it in a good way. Some guys just follow me into stocks, don’t give me credit, and get out as soon as possible.”

I was quiet then. Because, to be frank, it’s exactly what I plan to do.

I get calls from startups every day asking me to invest money in their company.

Most of the time I don’t invest. I have a huge checklist about who I invest in. And it’s eerie: when I don’t check one of the boxes, I lose money. When I follow the checklist, I make money.

Like the time I invested in Optimal, which was acquired by Brand Networks a year later (after they also asked me to be on their board of directors).

But the average investor isn’t able to be an angel investor, or privately invest in a company before it goes public. But that’s ok. The private world of investing is flooded.

It’s the public companies now that I’m interested in. This is where the opportunity is. One of the biggest hedge fund managers in the world just announced he is going back fully into stocks. “This is the time.”

When I am investing, I like to look at what I am going to call remora companies.

These are companies that leech onto larger, household names—like Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), and GE (GE). And, on top of it: I’m going to follow the super-hedge fund managers that are also quietly going into these smaller remora-like companies.

As these large companies (like Apple) become more popular and investors flood to invest in them, forcing the stock price up, the smaller remora companies get to enjoy the ride up as well. But until now, it’s only the big funds that have benefited.