In an otherwise hot US market (yes, public equities, but even more so in private mkts) - a potentially interesting value play: identifying businesses in emerging markets that are owned by Westerners with deep local knowledge and industry expertise.
e.g., You see this in privately held CPG or industrial goods co’s owned and operated by Afrikaners and adjacent groups.
Western competency and biz practices priced at PE / EBITDA multiples in line with other less sophisticated players in developing world.
Some trends shaping opportunity size in this space:
- Growing atomization & identity seeking: popularity of various existing (but not scientifically rigorous) personality tests = downstream from consumer question “who am I?”
- Shifting emphasis from Nurture to Nature: consumers will increasingly want results rooted in biological reality.
- Value of data and proprietary genotype to phenotype matching
- Rotation from mass mkt —> bespoke / probabilistic approaches across a range of goods and services
- Advancement from corrective —> preventive —> predictive healthcare
Is This Run for CrowdStrike Here To Stay?
- CrowdStrike is up 106% YTD
- S&P 500 is up 12.8% YTD
On August 26th, 2026, CEO George Kurtz said their Q2 FY27 was “the best quarter in CrowdStrike’s history”.
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On Monday, $MSFT presented Azure Maia 300, its own AI chip and said it plans to run most of its AI services on it.
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@vasilypiccone is doing incredible work at YouGene. It’s so cool to see this project come along. I loved how much it reminded me of a RPG to see my stats.
Forbearance, courage, and self-discipline. Three essential elements of the western way of warfare. Not unrelated, when you see someone crashing out on their allies and co-belligerents, it’s always one or more of these three elements missing.
Imagine how much of our intellectual firepower as a country has been locked away in bureaucratic swamps, waiting to be released in a flood of initiative, decisiveness, and force of will.
To be clear, this is complete insanity. No other nation operates with this level of suicidal obliviousness. The laws need to change quickly to catch up with reality.
“Blackpilling is a sin…The Lord is in the business of finding the dark places and making them the brightest places.”
Not sure I’ve ever heard a politician talk the way this man does.