𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬. - Dimitry Nakhla | Babylon Capital® tweet

Startup Archive
DoorDash founder Tony Xu: "You can't compete against an incumbent on their territory”

Tony argues:

“You have to find something where they're not incentivized to do it (Innovator's dilemma)… and you have to find an area where you think you can be advantaged.”

For DoorDash, this was end-to-end delivery and focusing on suburbs rather than cities. The incumbents at the time didn’t want to touch end-to-end delivery because it was lower margin. Incumbents also focused on cities because of the network density, but DoorDash realized the market outside of city centers was actually the bigger opportunity because that’s where most people lived.

“Knowing where the market is and knowing structurally why that's different and why that might be difficult for a competitor to serve, that's pretty important. Now, you also have to be correct on that bet… [Our bet on serving suburbs] turned out to be correct. But we didn't know that a priori.”

Tony’s other piece of advice is that you have to be “super fast”. A key advantage versus incumbents is that they have to make capital allocation decisions across their many businesses. But you probably only have one product so you should be able to move much faster:

“Focus is actually really easy… You’ve got to build that one product”

Video source: @khoslaventures (2024)
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Dimitry Nakhla | Babylon Capital®
The last four instances $MSFT fell >11% & the subsequent CAGR:

3/16/2020 → 22%
7/19/2013 → 25%
1/22/2009 → 23%
4/28/2006 → 17%

Of course past performance never guarantees future results, yet it’s a fun exercise that helps illustrate the potential when buying amid fear. https://t.co/U0YcKeUhrk

Worst selloffs in Microsoft history:
- Crash of 87
- Tech crash
- GFC
- Covid
- Azure misses buyside bogey https://t.co/5PxMVrdxq9 - modest proposal
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Clark Square Capital
RT @deusexdividend: You are not an above-average investor. You rode the coattails of the largest global quantitative easing program in history. The asset price bubble will deflate and you will be forced to move back into your mom's basement. At least there will be pizza rolls

Hit me with the harshest reality truth. https://t.co/fgIWAtqP4u - lyrify
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Dimitry Nakhla | Babylon Capital®
RT @DimitryNakhla: There are several respected investors who have long stayed away from companies like $GOOG, $AMZN, $MSFT & $META — skeptical of the returns on the enormous capital expenditures tied to cloud and AI infrastructure.

I understand the concern, but I don’t think that’s the right conclusion.

These businesses are building the digital backbone of the next decade, and exposure to them still remains beneficial.

At the same time, I’ve found it important to balance those “builders” with the cash cows — $MA, $V, $SPGI, $FICO etc — businesses with exceptional FCF margins, durable moats, and minimal capital requirements.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐄𝐱 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐬.

The builders power the future; the cash cows become even more efficient by leveraging AI within their own operations — expanding margins, driving automation, & compounding value quietly in the background.

Lately, we’ve seen many quality compounders sold down to compelling valuations, while capital has chased anything labeled “AI,” even pre-revenue businesses now worth tens of billions.

𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘺𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳.

Eventually, when the market begins to see cracks in AI-related CapEx or re-evaluates growth expectations, capital will likely rotate back toward predictable, high-margin compounders quietly executing in the background.

It’s not about being contrarian against AI — it’s about being contrarian within quality.

The great opportunities often come from owning world-class businesses everyone’s temporarily disinterested in.
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God of Prompt
RT @prompt_copilot: Grammarly fixes your writing.

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> Prompt enhancement
> Autocomplete
> Context profiles

Chrome extension for ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity.

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Fiscal.ai
"We anticipate 2026 capital expenditures to be in the range of $115 billion to $135 billion."

$META https://t.co/FsVtyXGwaE
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Brady Long
RT @thisdudelikesAI: Facebook raised BILLIONS with a pitch deck that looks… ugly.

So I recreated the original Facebook pitch deck using Gamma + Nano Banana.

What happened next completely changed how I think about raising money in 2026 👇 https://t.co/8ZTF2ZzkVx
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Quiver Quantitative
BREAKING: The government funding package has been voted down in the Senate.

Seven Republicans voted against it.

Polymarket is now pricing in a 77% chance of the government shutting down on Saturday.
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