220: Management Quality vs Tangible/Intangible Assets, Growth vs ROIC, Nvidia BlueField-2, Snowflake vs AWS, F-14 Birthday, and Economic Value of Aging https://libertyrpf.com/p/220-management-quality-vs-tangibleintangible…
I don't think I was very successful at phrasing it well -- I think it's really hard to imagine just changing that one variable without changing the rest of the business a lot... It may not even be possible and too theoretical ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Singleton was not dealing with PP&E. He was dealing with cheap and expensive capital. He bought back the former and issued the latter, and compounding took care of the rest.
Yeah but the question is still valid, isn’t it? Rephrased: is top-tier capital allocation ability a bigger deal when you’re dealing with software/high-intangibles businesses?