Primary Research Methods: Vetting Executives

This episode explores our historical work on Perimeter Solutions, a leading US aerial fire retardant company, including the competitive threat, how retardants are approved on the Qualified Supplier List, and the company's potential operational moat.

This episode explores how Constellation Software sources new deals compared to other acquirers such as Vitec Software and Röko, the Swedish industrial acquirer. We discuss how Constellation manages fills and manages its funnel, proprietary vs broker-led sourcing dynamics, and how the sourcing channel may determine long-term competitive advantage.

This podcast explores our learnings of the last five years studying Danaher's Business System through tens of hours of interviews with Former Danaher executives from the DBS office and its subsidiaries.

This interview with Magnus Söderlind, the Current CEO of Bergman & Beving, explores how and when the company deploys additional capital for M&A or capex into one of the group's divisions, challenges aligning incentives throughout the group, and how to scale a serial acquisition model.

This episode explores how we vet the quality and competence of executives before we interview them.

This episode explores the history of our primary research on Fever-Tree, why the stock has struggled for years, and whether the company has a distribution moat or is a commodity.