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Digital Engagement's Fat Tail Risk?
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
Indeed, Meta, along with other social networks and potentially any company that relies on engagement online, may be passing through a week that can have a much deeper implication over the next decade.
Meta specifically suffered two
Follow-up on Floor & Decor
Following my piece “Why I am buying Floor & Decor”, I have received a couple of pushbacks. I will address those and expand on FND’s competitive dynamics a bit more behind the paywall.
In addition to “Daily Dose” (yes, DAILY) like this, MBI Deep Dives publishes one Deep Dive
Meta's Agentic AI Ambitions
When Meta started building their Superintelligence team (MSL) in mid-2025, I certainly expected to see faster progress than what we have seen from them so far. I wonder if the Llama 4 fiasco as well as the backlash for “Vibes” last year made Meta much more tentative than usual for
Scuttleblurb on Ryan Specialty
It doesn’t happen often, but right after publishing my Deep Dive on Ryan Specialty Group last week, my friend Scuttleblurb also published on the same company. Scuttleblurb’s work is excellent as usual, and there are a couple of things that I want to highlight from Scuttleblurb’s piece
Why I am buying Floor & Decor
Since becoming a public company in 2017, Floor & Decor (FND) is currently going through its largest ever drawdown in its history. The stock is currently down ~65% from its peak in late 2021.
However, looking at NTM EV/EBIT multiple, it may appear the stock is still trading at
Ryan Specialty: The Unconflicted Middleman
Programming Note: I will take the next two days off. MBI Deep Dives will be back on Monday next week.
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Pat Ryan, currently 88-year old, is a living legend in the insurance industry. Soon after graduating from college, he entered insurance industry
Nadella's Flip-Flop
There are perhaps few things in the current AI revolution that keeps my opinions grounded than watching Microsoft’s evolving position in the post-ChatGPT world. It can be tempting to imagine investors just frenetically changing their labels to Microsoft as “AI winner” or “AI loser” every few months, but the
Survival of the Fastest
More than a decade ago, Peter Thiel wrote:
“Monopolists lie to protect themselves. They know that bragging about their great monopoly invites being audited, scrutinized and attacked. Since they very much want their monopoly profits to continue unmolested, they tend to do whatever they can to conceal their monopoly—usually
OpenAI's Dilemma
WSJ yesterday had an interesting reporting on why OpenAI is pondering to focus more on enterprise. Some excerpts from the piece:
“OpenAI’s top executives are finalizing plans for a major strategy shift to refocus the company around coding and business users, recognizing that a “do everything all at once”
The Neocloud Trojan Horse
One of the most frequent pushbacks that I have received to my recent posts on AWS (see here, and here) is that the neoclouds are not a legitimate concern for hyperscalers such as AWS and Azure in the long term. Frankly speaking, I myself operated under this assumption for the