Related post: Building materials: Part 1 In the 1967 film The Graduate, a young Dustin Hoffman is pulled aside by a friend of his parents, who offers the restless protagonist a simple piece of advice: “one word: plastics”. This versatile material had by then seeped into every crevice of American industry and was pitched as […]
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scuttleblurb business update (2025)
I’m sure you’re sick of these annual newsletter recaps by now, so I’ll keep mine [...]
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[ODFL, SAIA, XPO] the LTL carriers are going to be ok
If I were to tell you about a company whose main job is to move [...]
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[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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