IAC and MGM update: part 2

Upcoming posts (in no particular order): Gartner, Verisk, Visa/Mastercard, Tractor Supply, Apollo, Zoetis, and CCC (maybe) A few months ago, I got around to reading Barry Diller’s memoir, Who Knew. The guy’s career basically toured through every phase of modern media – talent agency, broadcast television, movie studio, fourth network (Fox), cable/home shopping – and […]

Introducing: scuttleslops

Hi everyone, I’m launching a new weekly service called scuttleslops. It will be included in all paid subscriptions. Each scuttleslop will contain 5 AI-generated summaries of weekly events and developments pertaining to companies I’ve profiled. Compared to the posts that I author, scuttleslops, written by Claude, will be light on context and focused on newsflow […]

[RDVT] Red Violet and the Identity Resolution Mafia

Upcoming posts (in no particular order): IAC/MGM, Gartner, Verisk, Visa/Mastercard, Tractor Supply, Zoetis (maybe) Today, a quick post on a small company with a colorful origin story. We don’t often think about the paper trail we leave behind as we move through the world. The DMV records, property deeds, utility bills, corporate filings, liens, and […]

Adyen update

Upcoming posts (in no particular order): PayPal/Stripe, IAC, Gartner, Red Violet, Verisk, Visa/Mastercard Payment processing stocks on the whole have had a rough 12 months: Source: Koyfin For some of these names, one can propose idiosyncratic reasons that might explain the sell-off – Shift4 is an opaque and levered serial acquirer; Global Payments and Fiserv […]

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Does Upwork have a future?

Upcoming posts (in no particular order): Upwork, Adyen, PayPal, Gartner, Verisk, maybe Visa/Mastercard A common rebuttal to the “AI will take all the jobs” narrative is that even if AI can do a given task better than a human, a job is more than just a collection of discrete tasks. Lawyers don’t just draft contracts […]

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[scuttlebit] Thermo Fisher update

MBI and I recorded an episode of Never Sell recently (AI Doom, Veeva, Research and Writing) (Spotify, Apple, YouTube, RSS feed) Upcoming posts (in no particular order): Upwork, Adyen, PayPal, Gartner, Verisk, maybe Visa/Mastercard As discussed in last week’s scuttlebit, Danaher’s life sciences coverage can basically be boiled down to 3 types of products: 1) diagnostic instruments and assays that hospitals […]

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