(this should be read as a companion piece to the Dollar General post from a few weeks ago). Like Dollar General and Wal-Mart, Dollar Tree traces its origins to variety stores in the Southeast. In 1963 K.R. Perry, a barber and Ben Franklin variety store franchisee, opened the K&K Five and Ten in Ward’s Corner, […]
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[SPGI] S&P Global
S&P, Moody’s, and the limits of AI disruption: Part 1
March 3, 2026
(Part 1 concerns S&P Global; Part 2 will be published next week and discusses Moody’s) [...]
Continue reading →[VEEV] Veeva Systems
Veeva, AI, and regulated workflows
February 23, 2026
I recently recorded my annual podcast interview with @LibertyRPF, where I offer some thoughts on [...]
Continue reading →[POOL] Pool Corp.
How Pool stacks up to Watsco
February 13, 2026
MBI and I recorded an episode of Never Sell recently (Big Tech Earnings) (Spotify, Apple, YouTube, RSS feed) Having just written [...]
Continue reading →[RELY] Remitly
Remitly looks interesting
February 4, 2026
It may not be entirely fair to think of Wise as “cross-border transfers for yuppies”, [...]
Continue reading →[KNSL] Kinsale
[KNSL] Kinsale is built for speed
January 26, 2026
One way to carve up the investment universe is between standardized products, like index funds, [...]
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