I’ve heard it said that in its early days the consumer internet was treated as another place to replicate tried-and-true practices from the offline world. Newspapers and magazines were thriving under a hybrid subscription and ad-based model, so it made sense that even as it collected ad revenue from service providers, Angie’s List charged consumers […]
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[AVTR] Avantor
[AVTR] a poor man’s Thermo Fisher
Avantor is like Thermo Fisher in some respects. It distributes lab products and sells bioprocessing [...]
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Survey results + programming notes
Hi everyone – on Monday, I’ll share some thoughts on Avantor in my final post [...]
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[scuttlebit] Shift4’s organic growth
Last week, a reader and Shift4 shareholder messaged me, raising questions about the company’s organic [...]
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Continue reading →[BAH] Booz Allen
Booz Allen and the business of defense – part 2
I left Part 1 with the observation that, starting in earnest around a decade ago, [...]
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Booz Allen and the business of defense – part 1
MBI and I recorded an episode of Never Sell recently (Serial Acquirer ROIC, Fiserv Debacle and Management Credibility, [...]
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