Business Breakdowns

Learn how companies work from the people who know them best. We do deep research and interview industry veterans, investment professionals, and business leaders to explain the inner workings of public stocks and private businesses. Every business has lessons and Breakdowns is here to highlight them.

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Matt is the CEO of Colossus. Zack is the Chief Investment Officer of Shoni Holdings, a single family office.

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Ep.33

MongoDB: The Database Platform

Ro Nagpal is an investor at Holocene Advisors. We cover Mongo’s creative approach to R&D, how database product advantages compound, and what protects Mongo from larger players like Microsoft and Amazon.

11.03.2021

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Ep.32

Universal Music Group: The Gatekeepers of Music

Arman Gokgol-Kline is a partner and investor at Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb. We cover the ways music was sold historically, assess streaming's impact on the industry, and dive into UMG's place in the ecosystem.

10.27.2021

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Ep.31

Uber: The Undeletable App

Mario Cibelli and Ram Parameswaran are Portfolio Managers at Marathon Partners and Octahedron Capital respectively. We cover the opportunity for Uber’s business segments, what deteriorating service means for the product, and what COVID may have revealed regarding Ubers’ financials.

10.20.2021

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Ep.30

John Deere: Centuries of Farming Innovation

Matt Coutts comes from a multi-generation family of farmers and is CIO of Coutts Holdings. We cover the state of the agriculture ecosystem today, what drives farming economics, and why Deere still holds such a strong competitive advantage two centuries after its founding.

10.13.2021

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Ep.29

Salesforce: The Cloud & SaaS Pioneer

Matt Garratt is a General Partner at VC firm CRV and former head of Salesforce Ventures. We cover the attributes that make Marc Benioff special, how he pushed against convention to usher in a new era of cloud-based businesses, and ways in which he has built a world around Salesforce’s product lines.

10.06.2021

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Ep.28

Solana: Faster, Cheaper, More Scalable

Kyle Samani is the co-founder and managing partner at Multicoin Capital. We cover the killer app for decentralized ledgers, the architecture that has enabled Solana’s speed unlock and look at the platform’s potential to become a huge piece of the world’s financial infrastructure.

09.29.2021

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Ep.27

Taboola: The Open Web’s Suggestion Engine

Adam Singolda is the founder and CEO of Taboola. We cover the ways in which Taboola’s value proposition for advertisers differs from that of Facebook and Google, unpack the reasons publishers choose to partner with Taboola, and dive into Adam’s vision for Taboola to recommend anything, anywhere.

09.22.2021

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Ep.26

Sky Mavis: The Builders behind Axie Infinity

Aleksander Larsen is the co-founder of Sky Mavis, and Stephen McKeon is a Partner at Collab+Currency, an early investor in Sky Mavis. We cover Axie Infinity's economic model, the importance of gameplay vs. the economic ecosystem, and examine Axie's sustainability from various angles.

09.15.2021

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Ep.25

Datadog: The Realtime Data Monitor

Peter Offringa is the author of Software Stack Investing. We cover Datadog’s unique product development cadence, how they’re able to grow their top line at 60% a year while staying profitable, and why Web3 might be their biggest competitive threat.

09.08.2021

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Ep.24

Wyndham Hotels: Loyalty Matters

Lauren Taylor Wolfe is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Impactive Capital. We cover Wyndham’s growth algorithm, its loyalty program, and the ways in which green programs are helping to drive higher cash-on-cash returns for franchisees.

09.01.2021

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