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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.

Matt is the CEO of Colossus. Zack is the Chief Investment Officer of Shoni Holdings, a single family office.
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Ep.150
HEICO: Parts for Planes
Eric Ruden is an Analyst at Ironvine Capital. We cover the market for aircraft parts and maintenance, how the Mendelson family have built HEICO into what it is today, and how its operating model compares with that of TransDigm.
02.21.2024

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Ep.92
Hermès: The Luxury Icon
Mark Urquhart is a partner at Baillie Gifford. We cover the brand's iconic handbags, how Hermès exudes exclusivity, and its potential for future growth.
01.11.2023

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Ep.151
Vulcan Materials: Rock On
Rob Hansen is a Senior Analyst at Vontobel Asset Management. We cover how Vulcan is crushing the competition in the construction aggregates market, the numerous applications of its products in critical infrastructure, and the excellent logistics that underpin its success.
02.28.2024
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Ep.36
AutoZone: Exemplary Capital Allocation
Freddie Lait is the founder and CIO at Latitude Investment Management. We cover the ways in which AutoZone's customer focus echoes the best of Walmart and Costco, how the business generates some of the highest returns on capital in retail, and dive into their share buyback program.
11.24.2021

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Ep.35
Amazon Aggregators: Buying Third-Party Sellers
Ali Hamed is a partner of CoVenture. We cover the three superpowers Amazon sellers have, why there’s only $8bn in funding for a market doing $50bn in EBITDA, and how Amazon Aggregators are structured and operate.
11.17.2021

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Ep.34
HelloFresh: Delivering on Process Power
Dominik Richter is the CEO and co-founder of HelloFresh. We cover the challenges of scaling an operationally intensive business, why HelloFresh is more like CPG companies than grocery stores, and what he’s learned about brand building.
11.10.2021

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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