Olivia
Online
Justin Evans
@Evans5599
Joined December 2025
142 Following
21 Followers
50 Posts
if @elonmusk paid 100% of his net worth ($1.4 trillion) as a tax it would only cover federal government spending for 77 days. this isn’t a tax problem…
@gary_srp stop C-22 now.
for anyone who hasn't been paying attention... C-22 is a terrible idea
C-22's architecture is most similar to laws in place in China, Russia, India and Vietnam
among allied democracies, the closest analog is Australia's TOLA Act (2018), which Australia is now amending due to the economic harm it caused
Spencer Pratt is the single best campaigner of his generation, and it’s not particularly close.
Well put
“Give them a massive amount of oil, agricultural land, copper, freshwater, and every natural resource in the world. Now make them neighbors with the biggest market in the world. Great, now have them leave the resources in the ground and instead flip condos to each other”.
The head of the International Energy Agency is urging Canada to move more quickly to develop and export its energy resources, warning that market conditions will only favor the country for so long. https://t.co/Qjom6jeerA
say the thing!
it will help save Canada
https://t.co/MDz2yd4I9F
The Founder of Shopify,
One of the smartest& wealthiest Canadian,
CORRECTLY points out, that there’s a Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) in Canada.
“The obvious way for prosperity here is to build the sh*t out of pipelines,
build the sh*t out of our industry,
get resources that everyone needs…
We have the most educated workforce on planet earth.”
Not a single lie was told.
How can you not love Tobi
Honest. Pragmatic. Centred.
How does that NOT send a guy to the quiet room?
Why are gas prices in Canada so much higher than in the United States?
We both face the same global circumstances. And Canada has an abundant supply.
Liberal taxes on gas make it more expensive to buy.
Liberal anti-development laws make it expensive to supply.
Mark Carney's Liberals are responsible for the more expensive gas at home.
Canada needs to build oil and gas infrastructure immediately to guarantee continuity of supply and relative price stability, regardless of what crisis, war, or destabilizing event occurs around the world.
This means, among other things, building pipelines to Eastern Canada so we are no longer dependent on foreign oil, and refineries in British Columbia so we are no longer dependent on gasoline refined in Washington State.
This should have been done years ago, but we are where we are.
It’s time to get shovels in the ground and to get to work!
It’s frankly embarrassing, and an indictment of those that lead us, that gas prices in Canada have spiked to over $2 per litre because of a conflict on the other side of the world.
We have, right here in Canada, the fourth largest oil reserves on the planet.
Pipelines should have been built 10 years ago. Refineries should have been built 10 years ago.
We should have an energy policy that puts Canada, and Canadians, first.
This is ridiculous.
Canada needs to build a pipeline. Fast.
When the West faced an old shortage during World War II, the US built the Big Inch Pipeline. 1,200 miles of pipeline built in months.
Crews laid 9 miles per day of pipeline - with 1942 technology.
Northern Gateway has been in review since 2006 (20+ years). Northern Gateway is about half the length of Big Inch. We have much better technology than we used to.
Let's just build!
Great post!
I keep getting asked about $CSU.
50 things every Constellation Software investor should know to get up to speed.
The basics. The numbers. The structure. The model. The compensation. Mark Leonard. Mark Miller. The moat. The hidden assets. The risks.
All of it. Bookmark this.
THE BASICS
1. Founded in 1995 by Mark Leonard in Toronto. He spent 11 years as a venture capitalist before starting CSU.
2. Listed on the TSX. Ticker: https://t.co/6YiDsxMYKc. One of the 60 largest companies in Canada.
3. CSU acquires, manages, and permanently holds vertical market software businesses. Software built for one specific industry. Courts. Cemeteries. Utilities. Transit.
4. Why VMS? Individual market niches are tiny. Often under $5M. Venture capital and big tech ignore them. But the software is mission critical, has high switching costs, and generates recurring revenue. Nobody else wants it. Incredible economics once you own it. That's the arbitrage.
5. 125,000+ customers. 100+ countries. 1,000+ acquired businesses. 64,000+ employees.
THE NUMBERS
6. Revenue: ~$11B USD (TTM). Up from $3.5B in 2019. More than tripled in five years. No down years. Ever.
7. ~75% of revenue is recurring. Subscriptions and maintenance contracts. The foundation of everything.
8. Customer retention: 96-98% annually. Without long-term contracts.
9. IPO in 2006 at ~$18 CAD/share. Now ~$2,377 at today's beaten-down price. A 130x return. $10K at IPO = $1.3M today. At the 52-week high of $5,300 it was nearly 300x.
10. Free cash flow to shareholders (FCFA2S): $1.47B in 2024, growing 27% year over year. This is Leonard's custom metric. Brutally honest. Deducts the IRGA liability on purpose, making numbers look worse than reality.
THE STRUCTURE
11. Six operating groups, each large enough to be its own public company.
12. Volaris. Largest group. 240+ businesses across 40+ verticals. Transportation, financial services, communications. Miller's home base before becoming President.
13. Harris. Oldest group. Public sector roots. Utilities, healthcare, government, schools. 100+ businesses.
14. Jonas. Started in club management software. Now fitness, hospitality, construction, foodservice. 140+ businesses.
15. Perseus. Healthcare, government, homebuilding. Smaller, closer to HQ.
16. Vela. Industrial. Oil and gas, manufacturing. 8 divisions.
17. TSS / Topicus. European operations. Spun out in 2021. Lumine Group spun out from Volaris. Both separate public companies where CSU retains significant interest.
18. Each business operates autonomously. HQ provides capital allocation and benchmarking, not operating directives. The culture is often described as "delegation to the point of abdication."
19. CSU is structured like Berkshire Hathaway but owns vertical market software instead of railroads and insurance. Decentralized. Permanent ownership. Zero stock-based compensation. Founder-led for 30 years.
THE MODEL
20. Buy and hold forever. Unlike private equity, CSU never sells an acquisition. This attracts better sellers. Founders who care about their employees and customers choose CSU over PE because the business stays intact.
21. The capital allocation cycle: buy sticky businesses, collect recurring cash flow, deploy into more acquisitions, compound. Repeat for 30 years.
22. CSU has identified tens of thousands of VMS businesses globally. They've acquired roughly 1,000 so far. The runway is measured in decades.
23. Typical deal: under $5M. Largest ever: Allscripts hospital business for ~$700M. Volume of small deals is the strategy.
24. $1.8B deployed into acquisitions in 2024 alone.
THE COMPENSATION
25. Zero stock-based compensation. $0. Ever. In 30 years. Executives buy shares at market price with their own cash. Same price as you and me.
26. Executives must invest up to 75% of their after-tax bonus in CSU shares with a 4-year lockup. Skin in the game is not optional. It is policy.
27. Leonard waived all salary and bonus in 2014. "I'm your partner in CSI, not your employee." His compensation from that point forward was stock appreciation only.
28. Many CSU employees are now millionaires through their shareholdings. No options. No RSUs. Open market purchases with their own money.
MARK LEONARD
29. Published annual shareholder letters that developed a cult following. Disclosed ROIC, organic growth breakdown, capital allocation philosophy in detail. If you own this stock and haven't read them, start there.
30. In 2018, wrote his last annual letter. Drew an analogy between VMS and the newspaper industry lifecycle: growth, consolidation, eventual decline. "I anticipate that the VMS industry will evolve similarly."
31. Same letter: "I am already casting about for such opportunities" outside VMS. He was looking beyond VMS seven years before stepping down.
32. Broke his silence in 2021 with one letter. The only topic important enough to make him write again: lowering hurdle rates and redirecting ALL free cash flow into bigger acquisitions and new asset classes. "I have converted, and with the fervour of the newly converted, I am busy demonstrating my new-found faith."
33. Named Mark Miller in that 2018 letter with "10,000 hours of relevant experience." Seven years before he needed a successor.
34. Resigned as President in September 2025 for health reasons. Stock crashed 17% that week.
35. Almost no photos of him exist online. No earnings calls since 2018. Cancelled them to protect acquisition intelligence from competitors.
MARK MILLER
36. Joined CSU in 2001 through Trapeze, CSU's very first acquisition from 1995. A CSU lifer.
37. Led Volaris, the largest operating group. The board called him "the most experienced, knowledgeable, and capable person" to lead.
38. The majority of acquisitions in the last decade were made by people who are not Mark Leonard. The machine was built to outlast any one person. Whether it does is the open question.
THE MOAT
39. Switching cost layer 1. Cost irrelevance. Software costs less than 1% of a customer's revenue. Even if a competitor offered it free, the migration risk wouldn't justify switching.
40. Switching cost layer 2. Decision maker incentives. The buyer is often a government employee who faces career risk if a switch fails and zero upside if it succeeds. Rational choice: don't touch it.
41. Switching cost layer 3. Regulated data. Court records have chain of custody. Utility billing has compliance audit trails. Government permits have public records obligations. Legal barrier, not technical.
42. The majority of CSU's revenue comes from government and regulated customers. Government headcount has grown almost every decade for 70+ years. The IRS still runs COBOL from the 1960s. These customers don't switch.
HIDDEN ASSETS
43. The IRGA: CSU's interest in Topicus shows as a ~$1B liability on the balance sheet. It's arguably worth ~$3B+. One of the most misunderstood line items in CSU's financials.
44. Topicus and Lumine spinouts decentralize capital allocation further and create more acquisition capacity across the system.
45. VMS Ventures: $200M fund launched in 2021 to acquire distressed startups that can't turn profitable after raising venture dollars. Buying distressed SaaS at a discount.
THE RISKS (HONEST)
46. Leonard's health and reduced involvement. Miller is unproven at enterprise-scale capital allocation outside VMS. This is the biggest open question.
47. Competition for acquisitions increasing. PE and other serial acquirers bidding up VMS valuations. Leonard acknowledged this himself.
48. AI risk: not that someone builds better VMS. The real risk is the intelligence layer moving above it. If AI agents become the customer interface, whoever builds them captures the relationship.
49. ISS gives CSU a 9/10 governance risk score. Same structural penalties as Berkshire. Concentrated ownership, limited board independence. Understand what you own.
THE BOTTOM LINE
50. Three fear events priced in simultaneously: AI disruption + Leonard resignation + SaaSpocalypse. Down 55% from the 52-week high.
The moat isn't the software. It's the capital allocation machine and the people who run it. A thousand autonomous businesses compounding capital into a thousand more.
Every other serial acquirer copies the model. None of them copy the discipline.
I'm long $CSU. What did I miss?
Bonus: Mark Leonard once built a flamethrower.
I keep getting asked about $CSU.
50 things every Constellation Software investor should know to get up to speed.
The basics. The numbers. The structure. The model. The compensation. Mark Leonard. Mark Miller. The moat. The hidden assets. The risks.
All of it. Bookmark this.
THE BASICS
1. Founded in 1995 by Mark Leonard in Toronto. He spent 11 years as a venture capitalist before starting CSU.
2. Listed on the TSX. Ticker: https://t.co/6YiDsxMYKc. One of the 60 largest companies in Canada.
3. CSU acquires, manages, and permanently holds vertical market software businesses. Software built for one specific industry. Courts. Cemeteries. Utilities. Transit.
4. Why VMS? Individual market niches are tiny. Often under $5M. Venture capital and big tech ignore them. But the software is mission critical, has high switching costs, and generates recurring revenue. Nobody else wants it. Incredible economics once you own it. That's the arbitrage.
5. 125,000+ customers. 100+ countries. 1,000+ acquired businesses. 64,000+ employees.
THE NUMBERS
6. Revenue: ~$11B USD (TTM). Up from $3.5B in 2019. More than tripled in five years. No down years. Ever.
7. ~75% of revenue is recurring. Subscriptions and maintenance contracts. The foundation of everything.
8. Customer retention: 96-98% annually. Without long-term contracts.
9. IPO in 2006 at ~$18 CAD/share. Now ~$2,377 at today's beaten-down price. A 130x return. $10K at IPO = $1.3M today. At the 52-week high of $5,300 it was nearly 300x.
10. Free cash flow to shareholders (FCFA2S): $1.47B in 2024, growing 27% year over year. This is Leonard's custom metric. Brutally honest. Deducts the IRGA liability on purpose, making numbers look worse than reality.
THE STRUCTURE
11. Six operating groups, each large enough to be its own public company.
12. Volaris. Largest group. 240+ businesses across 40+ verticals. Transportation, financial services, communications. Miller's home base before becoming President.
13. Harris. Oldest group. Public sector roots. Utilities, healthcare, government, schools. 100+ businesses.
14. Jonas. Started in club management software. Now fitness, hospitality, construction, foodservice. 140+ businesses.
15. Perseus. Healthcare, government, homebuilding. Smaller, closer to HQ.
16. Vela. Industrial. Oil and gas, manufacturing. 8 divisions.
17. TSS / Topicus. European operations. Spun out in 2021. Lumine Group spun out from Volaris. Both separate public companies where CSU retains significant interest.
18. Each business operates autonomously. HQ provides capital allocation and benchmarking, not operating directives. The culture is often described as "delegation to the point of abdication."
19. CSU is structured like Berkshire Hathaway but owns vertical market software instead of railroads and insurance. Decentralized. Permanent ownership. Zero stock-based compensation. Founder-led for 30 years.
THE MODEL
20. Buy and hold forever. Unlike private equity, CSU never sells an acquisition. This attracts better sellers. Founders who care about their employees and customers choose CSU over PE because the business stays intact.
21. The capital allocation cycle: buy sticky businesses, collect recurring cash flow, deploy into more acquisitions, compound. Repeat for 30 years.
22. CSU has identified tens of thousands of VMS businesses globally. They've acquired roughly 1,000 so far. The runway is measured in decades.
23. Typical deal: under $5M. Largest ever: Allscripts hospital business for ~$700M. Volume of small deals is the strategy.
24. $1.8B deployed into acquisitions in 2024 alone.
THE COMPENSATION
25. Zero stock-based compensation. $0. Ever. In 30 years. Executives buy shares at market price with their own cash. Same price as you and me.
26. Executives must invest up to 75% of their after-tax bonus in CSU shares with a 4-year lockup. Skin in the game is not optional. It is policy.
27. Leonard waived all salary and bonus in 2014. "I'm your partner in CSI, not your employee." His compensation from that point forward was stock appreciation only.
28. Many CSU employees are now millionaires through their shareholdings. No options. No RSUs. Open market purchases with their own money.
MARK LEONARD
29. Published annual shareholder letters that developed a cult following. Disclosed ROIC, organic growth breakdown, capital allocation philosophy in detail. If you own this stock and haven't read them, start there.
30. In 2018, wrote his last annual letter. Drew an analogy between VMS and the newspaper industry lifecycle: growth, consolidation, eventual decline. "I anticipate that the VMS industry will evolve similarly."
31. Same letter: "I am already casting about for such opportunities" outside VMS. He was looking beyond VMS seven years before stepping down.
32. Broke his silence in 2021 with one letter. The only topic important enough to make him write again: lowering hurdle rates and redirecting ALL free cash flow into bigger acquisitions and new asset classes. "I have converted, and with the fervour of the newly converted, I am busy demonstrating my new-found faith."
33. Named Mark Miller in that 2018 letter with "10,000 hours of relevant experience." Seven years before he needed a successor.
34. Resigned as President in September 2025 for health reasons. Stock crashed 17% that week.
35. Almost no photos of him exist online. No earnings calls since 2018. Cancelled them to protect acquisition intelligence from competitors.
MARK MILLER
36. Joined CSU in 2001 through Trapeze, CSU's very first acquisition from 1995. A CSU lifer.
37. Led Volaris, the largest operating group. The board called him "the most experienced, knowledgeable, and capable person" to lead.
38. The majority of acquisitions in the last decade were made by people who are not Mark Leonard. The machine was built to outlast any one person. Whether it does is the open question.
THE MOAT
39. Switching cost layer 1. Cost irrelevance. Software costs less than 1% of a customer's revenue. Even if a competitor offered it free, the migration risk wouldn't justify switching.
40. Switching cost layer 2. Decision maker incentives. The buyer is often a government employee who faces career risk if a switch fails and zero upside if it succeeds. Rational choice: don't touch it.
41. Switching cost layer 3. Regulated data. Court records have chain of custody. Utility billing has compliance audit trails. Government permits have public records obligations. Legal barrier, not technical.
42. The majority of CSU's revenue comes from government and regulated customers. Government headcount has grown almost every decade for 70+ years. The IRS still runs COBOL from the 1960s. These customers don't switch.
HIDDEN ASSETS
43. The IRGA: CSU's interest in Topicus shows as a ~$1B liability on the balance sheet. It's arguably worth ~$3B+. One of the most misunderstood line items in CSU's financials.
44. Topicus and Lumine spinouts decentralize capital allocation further and create more acquisition capacity across the system.
45. VMS Ventures: $200M fund launched in 2021 to acquire distressed startups that can't turn profitable after raising venture dollars. Buying distressed SaaS at a discount.
THE RISKS (HONEST)
46. Leonard's health and reduced involvement. Miller is unproven at enterprise-scale capital allocation outside VMS. This is the biggest open question.
47. Competition for acquisitions increasing. PE and other serial acquirers bidding up VMS valuations. Leonard acknowledged this himself.
48. AI risk: not that someone builds better VMS. The real risk is the intelligence layer moving above it. If AI agents become the customer interface, whoever builds them captures the relationship.
49. ISS gives CSU a 9/10 governance risk score. Same structural penalties as Berkshire. Concentrated ownership, limited board independence. Understand what you own.
THE BOTTOM LINE
50. Three fear events priced in simultaneously: AI disruption + Leonard resignation + SaaSpocalypse. Down 55% from the 52-week high.
The moat isn't the software. It's the capital allocation machine and the people who run it. A thousand autonomous businesses compounding capital into a thousand more.
Every other serial acquirer copies the model. None of them copy the discipline.
I'm long $CSU. What did I miss?
Bonus: Mark Leonard once built a flamethrower.
Highlights from my testimony to the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Natural Resources - opening statement
Weird to see Connor so animated at the bench, after a goal against–where he was the prime guy at fault #Oilers
Last Seen Users on Sotwe
Trends for you
Most Popular Users
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
241M followers
Barack Obama
@barackobama
119.2M followers
Cristiano Ronaldo
@cristiano
111.9M followers
Donald J. Trump
@realdonaldtrump
111.8M followers
Narendra Modi
@narendramodi
107M followers
Rihanna
@rihanna
98M followers
NASA
@nasa
92.2M followers
Justin Bieber
@justinbieber
91.2M followers
KATY PERRY
@katyperry
88.4M followers
Taylor Swift
@taylorswift13
82.3M followers
Lady Gaga
@ladygaga
73.8M followers
Virat Kohli
@imvkohli
71.1M followers
Kim Kardashian
@kimkardashian
70.1M followers
YouTube
@youtube
68.7M followers
Bill Gates
@billgates
64.3M followers
Neymar Jr
@neymarjr
63.9M followers
The Ellen Show
@theellenshow
62.4M followers
CNN
@cnn
61.8M followers
Selena Gomez
@selenagomez
61.5M followers
X
@x
60.8M followers