There’s a good reason why Microsoft was dubbed the Death Star by many fearful detractors during the on-premise era: its OS/application stack, with 90%+ desktop share, was an impermeable force that whipped the surrounding computing galaxy into submission. Given Window’s ubiquity, value added resellers and systems integrators optimized their resources and relationships by supporting Windows […]
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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
December 22, 2025
Avantor is like Thermo Fisher in some respects. It distributes lab products and sells bioprocessing [...]
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Survey results + programming notes
December 19, 2025
Hi everyone – on Monday, I’ll share some thoughts on Avantor in my final post [...]
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[scuttlebit] Shift4’s organic growth
December 10, 2025
Last week, a reader and Shift4 shareholder messaged me, raising questions about the company’s organic [...]
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Booz Allen and the business of defense – part 2
December 8, 2025
I left Part 1 with the observation that, starting in earnest around a decade ago, [...]
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