Dorsey: Serial M&A Is a Learned Skill That Most Public Companies Lack
“Acquiring companies in the way of a Danaher or a Transdime or a Constellation, it's a learned skill. You iterate, you go back and say, okay, what were our deal assumptions and how did they work out? What do we learn from that? What do we lean into? What do we …”
Loeb: Danaher is truly one of the best-run businesses
“I think investing in Danaher has been the most instructive because it really is truly One of the best run businesses.”
Loeb: Danaher celebrates finding underperformance because it is fixable
“When they found someone that was underperforming, it was celebrated because instead of shamed, because look, look what all these things you're doing wrong, we can fix those, and they did.”
Over a dozen US Fortune 500 CEOs started their careers at Danaher
“There's basically over a dozen Fortune, 500 CEOs in the United States who basically started their jobs at Danaher, including the guy who just have turned around GE.”
Joe Schmidt: Danaher and Tyler Technologies rely on financial engineering, not AI
“One is a very well-known company called Danaher. There's another one called Tyler Technologies based out of Texas. These are like probably the best examples of these businesses historically, but again, they're not AI native, right? And I, and they're basically…”
Researching emerging Chinese competitors yields higher ROI than re-studying Danaher
“For instance, if I'm looking at Danaher, am I better off from a team return on time standpoint reading another case study on Danaher business system or researching a local Chinese competitor that's up and coming? And our view is the latter is at this point in …”
Wolfe: Scientific tool companies will become the future Danahers for value investors
“So those are things that I feel like directionally, the demand for tools for science, what we call the tech of science, is going to have a big tailwind. And those companies will not just be speculative technology companies. They will be the future data hers. A…”