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Airbnb: The Future of Hospitality
March 9, 2025 | I’ve got a fun one for ya today, folks: Silicon Valley meets hospitality, the hotel industry’s worst nightmare — Airbnb 🏡
Blue Owl: The Next Blackstone?
March 2, 2025 | This week, I’m diving into one of the few SPACs from the 2020-era Lollapalooza in financial markets that has actually worked out: a fast-growing alternative asset manager humbly named Blue Owl that, perhaps, has its eyes set on being the next Blackstone?
VeriSign: The Internet’s Toll Road
February 23, 2025 | No, I don’t have a literal toll-road company to tell you about today; I actually have something much more powerful: a business that operates like the toll road I describe above, yet for the entire internet 👀
AutoZone: Under The Hood
February 16, 2025 | Few companies have been as prolific cannibals of their own stock as AutoZone, a franchise that has, in two decades, spent tens of billions of dollars consuming 90% of its outstanding shares.
Vital Farms: Egg-cellent Investment?
February 9, 2025 | Another company is now bringing Conscious Capitalism to public markets, again showing that putting ethical business and sustainability first isn’t just ESG gibberish but an actually winning strategy underpinning one of the most impressive brands in the world.
Alphabet: Searching For Value
February 2, 2025 | Can the “Magnificent 7” offer value? Depends on how you define value. They’d probably be too rich for ol’ Ben Graham’s tastes, but boy, they have done well.
John Deere: An American Stalwart
January 26, 2025 | What’s more American than Levi’s blue jeans and apple pie? Well, honestly, probably nothing, but John Deere is in contention. Few brands have left a bigger cultural mark on rural America than Deere.
ULTA: A Beautiful Compounder
January 19, 2025 | To any stock investor, compounding is a thing of beauty. Bonus points, though, if your compounder is literally beautiful. Enter, Ulta Beauty 💄
CPNG: The Amazon of South Korea
January 12, 2025 | There is only one Amazon, and if you were fortunate enough to invest in it at any point in the past 25 years and continue to hold it, you’ve done quite well. Coupang is not exactly Amazon, but it’s impressive in its own ways.
Uber: Cash Burner to Compounder?
April 20, 2025 | I was actually one such investor who, when researching Alphabet previously, suggested Waymo could and should eventually cut Uber out instead of partnering with them. After having studied Uber, I now see it differently. Let’s discuss.
Nike: Just Buy It?
April 13, 2025 | Nike is one of those rare businesses that doesn't just sell products — it shapes culture, identity, and aspiration. But despite that iconic status, the company is facing one of the most challenging stretches in its modern history.
Reddit: The Front Page of the Internet
April 6, 2025 | It’s a special thing to redefine what it means to be part of a “community.” Yet, that’s exactly what Reddit, known colloquially as “the Front Page of the Internet,” has done. The future is promising, but is the stock too richly priced? Let’s find out!
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