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Businesses

How the companies worth studying actually work — the story, the model, the moat, the key people, and the decisions that made them. New profiles publish every week.

5 profiles
A
Consumer technology
Apple

The company that makes most of its profit by being the one product people refuse to leave.

B
Diversified holding company
Berkshire Hathaway

A failing textile mill turned into a trillion-dollar machine for allocating capital — powered by insurance money it holds but doesn't own.

C
Retail (warehouse club)
Costco

A retailer that makes almost no money selling you goods — and nearly all of it selling you the right to shop there.

N
Semiconductors & AI
NVIDIA

The chip company that spent twenty years building the tools of the AI boom before the boom arrived — then became the world's first $5 trillion company.

W
Retail
Walmart

The world's largest company by revenue, built on a self-reinforcing loop that turns scale into ever-lower prices.