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Huh discovered that this kind of mathematics could give him what poetry could not: the ability to search for beauty outside himself, to try to grasp something external, objective and true, in a way that opened him up more than writing ever had. “You don’t think about your small self,” he said. “There’s no place for ego.” He found that unlike when he was a poet, he was never motivated by the desire for recognition. He just wanted to do math.
June Huh, High School Dropout, Wins the Fields Medal | Quanta Magazine
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In fact, it’s the old dogs with new tricks that have a higher probability of withstanding disruption within their markets. The old dogs have the benefit of existing revenue and earnings. They have the infrastructure and invaluable industry insight. They have customers wanting to update the trends.
Buy Then Build
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But what this allows to be done is, it allows scale. We've done over the last few years about 600 acquisitions. According to PitchBook, more than anyone else in the world. Average enterprise value though of transactions is $12 million, hundreds of them deployed over $7 billion in a 3-year time period, but across 586 transactions.
Lessons From Acquiring 586 Companies - Colossus
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