Before CoStar came onto the scene in 1987, getting clean and current data on rental rates, vacancies, absorption, and precedent comps needed to transact in commercial real estate was a vexing, ad hoc process. In the early/mid-90s, juniors staffed across various financial institutions devoted significant chunks of their workweeks collecting and scrubbing this information. Or […]
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[DHR] Danaher
[scuttlebit] Danaher update
It’s been nearly three years since I last wrote up Danaher and Thermo Fisher, so [...]
Continue reading →[RYAN] Ryan Specialty
[RYAN] Ryan Specialty – the middlemen have middlemen
This is a companion piece to the Kinsale writeup from a few weeks ago, where [...]
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Continue reading →[MCO] Moody's Corp
S&P, Moody’s, and the limits of AI disruption: Part 2
I briefly discussed credit ratings in my S&P write-up. It’s a great business, we all [...]
Continue reading →[WIX] Wix.com
[scuttlebit] Wix at the AI Crossroads
What are scuttlebits? Wix was conceived to democratize the creation of websites at a time [...]
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Continue reading →[SPGI] S&P Global
S&P, Moody’s, and the limits of AI disruption: Part 1
(Part 1 concerns S&P Global; Part 2 will be published next week and discusses Moody’s) [...]
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