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May 8-12, 2023
Let’s get right into it this week!

Ryan
May 13, 20236 min read
April 24-28, 2023
Hope you all had a great week. Let’s get into the latest developments! Tesla On Monday, Tesla upped its capital expenditures guidance from $6-8 billion to $7-9 billion, presumably from the Mexico plant that the company is breaking ground on by the end of this year. From the 10-q, here is the general justification:

Ryan
Apr 29, 20234 min read
April 17-21, 2023
If you haven’t watched the database video from last week, I encourage you to go back and look at it. If you’d just like to find the link to the database, you can find that here .

Ryan
Apr 22, 20239 min read
April 3-7, 2023
Let’s get into the news from this week! On March 14th, BILL’s CFO presented at a conference. Here are just a few notable quotes: BILL We had some funds with Silicon Valley Bank that will earn lower float revenue in March. We have a commercial agreement with Silicon Valley Bank in support of their businesses, that agreement obviously terminates. There's 3,000 to 4,000 customers who are on that platform. From a financial standpoint, it's immaterial to build. It's less tha

Ryan
Apr 19, 20235 min read
March 20-24, 2023
We are going to take a break from the news flow this week and talk more about our quality checklist. That’s probably what I’ve been spending the most time on and I believe it will bear fruit for years and years to come. We talked about it a few months ago [ HERE ] but I wanted to discuss it a little more. I was recently reading a book called “Get Smarter” by Seymour Schulich, a Canadian billionaire who was an integral part of Franco Nevada, a huge silver mining operation.

Ryan
Apr 18, 202311 min read


March 13-17, 2023
The big news over the last week is, of course, the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). In its wake, regional banks sold off as much...

Ryan
Apr 18, 20237 min read
March 6-10, 2023
Before getting into the news from the week, I’ve been really refining our quality filter. In no particular order, these companies score at the top of my ranking. It’s pretty consistent with that email I sent a while back, with the quality checklist items.

Ryan
Apr 18, 20238 min read
February 27-March 3, 2023
We announced this in the Slack several days ago but just want to make sure everyone hears about this. We are making Business Breakdowns a free newsletter. The main reason is so we can focus more time on you, our Dynasty Members. We have hired someone to help write Business Breakdowns and there won’t be a strict schedule, freeing up my time a bit more. You don’t have to do anything, I’ve already set you all up on the new site: www.business-breakdowns.com Also, I’d like to gi

Ryan
Apr 18, 20238 min read
February 20-24, 2023
Hope you had a great week! Let’s get right into it… Transmedics This is a news article about a man in Arizona that got a successful...

Ryan
Apr 18, 20236 min read
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