MBI Deep Dives

MBI Deep Dives

Trillion Dollar Club

A couple of weeks ago, I recorded a podcast with my friend Liberty to discuss all the companies in “trillion dollar club”. Enjoy! From Liberty’s Highlights: “At nearly two hours, this one is massive, but you know what they say: Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Microsoft in the "Dance Floor"

If you need any reminder how challenging active investing is, it can be humbling to know that if you bought Microsoft the day ChatGPT was launched, you would not only underperform QQQ but also underperform Alphabet (the very company the consensus assumed to be the primary “victim” of ChatGPT) by

Meta 4Q'25 Update

Admittedly, I was confused looking at the initial reaction of Meta’s earnings when the stock went down. Mr. Market promptly corrected its “mistake” later. One of the reasons I think some may have reacted negatively is the ever burgeoning capex outlook by Meta which inevitably exerts pressure on FCF.

Texas Instruments 4Q'25 Update

I owned Texas Instruments (TXN) for almost 18 months and then managed to sell what appears to be a local bottom in hindsight. Although I did re-allocate my proceeds from TXN sale to Alphabet and Meta equally, Texas Instruments performed better than either of those companies. The chart below doesn’

A "Sneaky" Bull Case for Tesla's Operating Performance?

There is perhaps hardly any stock out there which bamboozle most value investors more than Tesla. Given Tesla’s eye-watering multiple, I have seen people often mentioning Mag7 multiples, excluding Tesla. Even if I look at consensus EPS estimates in 2029, the stock currently trades at ~55x of 2029 EPS.

Figma: The Design OS at the AI Crossroads

You can listen to the Deep Dive here Back in 2011, Dylan Field, then a 18-year old intern at the social magazine startup Flipboard, found himself wrestling with clunky design software. He was frustrated by Adobe Fireworks and wondered aloud why designing on a computer couldn’t be as seamless

The Social Media Ban Wagon

A programming note: I hope to publish my Deep Dive on Figma tomorrow. Next month, following the big tech’s earnings I will review Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet’s 10-Ks and update my models. As it’s been the case for the last couple of years, I won’t publish

Some charts that caught my attention

a16z recently published their “State of Markets” presentation. I will share some of the charts from the presentation that caught my attention. First of all, I do want to highlight a key limitation of a16z’s data; they mention that the presentation only includes data voluntarily provided to a16z by

The Bull Case for AI Content on UGC Platforms

Yesterday, Ben Thompson interviewed Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters. I don’t cover Netflix, but this particular bit on “AI Slop” caught my attention: Ben Thompson: Is AI slop going to save you? If it overwhelms the UGC platforms and basically it’s like you’re a refuge, so this is

The Case for Giving Employees More Agency in Compensation

Whenever software companies take a beating in the market, their elevated stock based compensation (SBC) becomes a talking point between bulls and bears. As the stocks tumble, some atypical investors start to look at SaaS companies and often get dissuaded pretty fast after taking a look at their excessive executive