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Weekend Reading: WeChat’s Huge Moat in China

Posted on August 15, 2016August 16, 2017

This is just a quick post on some interesting articles I read over the weekend as I caught up on some newspaper reading. There were a couple recent pieces (one in the Economist and one in the NY Times) on WeChat, the Chinese messaging app that now boasts over 700 million users. WeChat is also generating a significant amount of revenue (unlike Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger apps that haven’t monetized their networks yet). WeChat is also estimated to be very profitable for its […]

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Notes on Credit Acceptance Corp (CACC)

Posted on July 25, 2016

I recently made a list of a few shareholder letters I want to read, and one that I completed a few days ago was Credit Acceptance Corp (CACC). This post is not a comprehensive review of the business, as I just started reading about the company. But I thought some readers might be interested in some initial notes. (I am thinking about putting more of these “scratch notes” up as posts. If this is interesting to readers, please let me […]