Shawn O'Malley and Daniel Mahncke explore Spotify Inc. (ticker: SPOT), the world's largest audio streaming platform, and assess whether the company can sustain its growth and improve margins against fierce competition from YouTube, Apple, and Amazon, or whether it will remain trapped as a low-margin intermediary in the music industry. Spotify saved the recorded music industry from piracy and built a platform that over 750 million people use monthly.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:13:25 - How Spotify saved the recorded music industry from piracy
00:24:40 - Why the freemium business model was key to Spotify's growth
00:29:24 - What makes Spotify's recommendation engine and personalization a competitive moat
00:51:00 - How Spotify is diversifying beyond music into podcasts and audiobooks
00:37:56 - Why music streaming margins are structurally constrained by label royalties
01:16:27 - How YouTube poses the biggest competitive threat to Spotify
01:11:26 - What Spotify's management team thinks about AI's impact on the business
00:41:11 - How Spotify's pricing power and international expansion affect its valuation
01:28:14 - Whether Shawn and Daniel add SPOT to their Intrinsic Value Portfolio
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Daniel Mahncke and Shawn O'Malley take a deep dive into Kelly Partners — a fast-growing Australian chartered accounting network with over 25,000 SME clients and founder Brett Kelly's relentless ambition to build Australia's first global accounting firm. Join Daniel and Shawn as they assess whether Kelly Partners has a sustainable moat, an attractive valuation, and whether it deserves a spot in portfolio.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:56 - Who the CEO and founder, Brett Kelly, is 00:04:27 - About the mission of Kelly Partners 00:06:53 - How the business model works 00:10:15 - How big the TAM is 00:26:12 - Whether AI is a threat or an opportunity 00:26:51- What the bull and bear cases look like 00:35:02 - What acquisition criteria Kelly Partners has 00:51:50 - How the financials work 01:03:07 - Whether Shawn and Daniel add Kelly Partners to the portfolio
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Shawn O’Malley and Daniel Mahncke break down the emerging design giant Figma Inc. (ticker: FIG) and discuss whether the company can expand further into other enterprise design software verticals against Adobe. In this episode, you’ll learn how Figma burst onto the scene after three long years of toiling in the background, why Figma’s stock has crash 80% since IPO, and whether Figma’s stock is attractively priced at current levels.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00:00 - Intro 00:09:01 - Why the design process used to be so messy and disjointed before Figma came along 00:11:08 - How Figma was born out of a partnership at Brown University 00:28:53 - How Figma is turning from a single-hit product into a more diversified platform 00:36:51 - What Figma is doing to redefine the future of AI in collaborative design 00:52:06 - What to make of Figma’s young CEO, Dylan Field 00:54:32 - Why Figma crashed after its IPO 00:56:14 - How IPO-related stock-based-comp accounting distorted Figma’s 2024 & 2025 financials 01:03:54 - Whether Shawn and Daniel add FIG to their Intrinsic Value Portfolio
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Daniel Mahncke and Shawn O’Malley take a deep dive into Duolingo — the leading language learning app with over 50 million daily active users and the chaotic green owl as a mascot. Since its IPO in 2021, Duolingo has expanded beyond language instruction to include math, music, and chess. The vision is to create the world's largest learning platform.
Some people believe Duolingo will succeed and become a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars, dominating one of the largest and most profitable markets – education. However, the stock has fallen 80% from its highs, as the market views Duolingo as a potential target for AI disruption.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:05:51 - About the mission of the CEO and Founder, Luis von Ahn
00:08:29 - Why Duolingo was founded
00:10:34 - Why Duolingo works better than other apps
00:17:16 - About Duolingo's user numbers and growth
00:37:55 - Why the stock dropped 80%
00:40:55 - Whether AI is a threat or an opportunity
00:53:47 - What the bull and bear cases look like
01:18:11 - Whether Shawn and Daniel add Duolingo to the portfolio
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Shawn O’Malley and Daniel Mahncke break down the ride-sharing giant Lyft Inc. (ticker: LYFT) and discuss whether the company can regain ground against Uber, or whether it’s always destined to be #2. While Lyft has clawed back some market share, finally attained profitability, and is now growing internationally, Shawn finds Lyft most interesting as a potential acquisition target for a company like DoorDash, Amazon, or Alphabet.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:18 - Why Lyft could be such an interesting acquisition target
00:11:58 - How the company has actually managed to regain market share versus Uber
00:13:36 - What Lyft did to achieve operating profitability for the first time this year
00:24:24 - How Zimbabwe became the inspiration for Lyft
00:31:30 - How Lyft’s co-founders used viral marketing to gain traction
00:32:05 - Why scrappiness is in Lyft’s DNA
00:33:14 - Why Lyft made sure to IPO before Uber
01:16:05 - How to think about modeling LYFT’s intrinsic value
01:19:00 - Whether Shawn and Daniel add LYFT to their Intrinsic Value Portfolio
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Daniel Mahncke and Shawn O’Malley take a deep dive into Constellation Software — the popular Canadian compounder that has turned buying “boring” vertical market software into one of the most effective capital-allocation machines in public markets.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:33 - How Mark Leonard founded Constellation 00:08:43 - What principles drive Mark Leonard 00:15:23 - What Constellation looks for in acquisition targets 00:19:20 - About the metrics that matter to Constellation 00:21:15 - How Constellation is structured and incentivized 00:46:26 - Whether AI is a threat or chance 01:04:50 - Why Constellation considers investing outside of VMS 01:08:50 - Whether Shawn and Daniel add Constellation to the portfolio
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Shawn O’Malley and Daniel Mahncke break down Netflix (ticker: NFLX) and discuss whether the company has finally won the streaming wars. While growth looked challenged back in 2022, Netflix has proven resilient in the face of competition and economic slowdowns by leaning into advertising and password crackdowns, with much room left to run internationally.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:13:36 - How Netflix pivoted from mailing DVDs to streaming
00:14:48 - How Netflix killed Blockbuster
00:24:20 - Why the business works so well with two co-CEOs
00:46:25 - How being a first-mover got Netflix through the cash burn phase before any competition arose
00:48:29 - What Netflix is doing to sustain growth into the future
00:54:00 - What makes the company’s culture so legendary
01:04:18 - Why Netflix’s app just “works” better than the competition
01:18:03 - How to think about modeling NFLX’s intrinsic value
01:22:28 - Whether Shawn and Daniel add NFLX to their Intrinsic Value Portfolio
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Daniel Mahncke and Shawn O’Malley answer some of the most common questions about The Intrinsic Value Community. What exactly is it, who is it for, and how does it differ from simply listening to the podcast or reading the free newsletter? In this short episode, they explain why the Community was built, who the members are, and how it helps investors improve idea generation, decision-making, and long-term learning through thoughtful discussion and collaboration.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:04 - Why Shawn and Daniel built The Intrinsic Value Community 00:01:58 - How members generate, discuss, and refine investment ideas 00:02:28 - What makes the member base and discussions unique 00:03:39 - How learning, feedback, and accountability work inside the Community 00:04:34 - What role the Community plays alongside the podcast and newsletter 00:06:26 - And how to get involved when new spots open
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Daniel Mahncke and Shawn O’Malley take a deep dive into Hermès — the family-controlled luxury house that has turned craftsmanship and scarcity into a compounding machine.
Join Daniel Mahncke and Shawn O’Malley as they assess whether Hermès can remain the pinnacle of luxury and whether it deserves a spot in The Intrinsic Value Portfolio.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:10 - What makes a brand true luxury 00:10:35 - Why no one can copy Hermès 00:18:57 - How important local production and family ties are 00:20:26 - Why Hermès started producing bags 00:23:55 - How Hermès built its moat and reputation 00:39:22 - What markets matter most to Hermès 00:43:07 - How Hermès can keep growing 01:10:51 - Whether Shawn and Daniel add Hermès to the portfolio And much, much more!
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Shawn O’Malley and Daniel Mahncke break down Doximity (ticker: DOCS), known as “the LinkedIn for doctors,” with a suite of productivity apps supporting physicians’ workflows, too. Incredibly, 80% of physicians in the U.S. are on Doximity, giving them fertile real estate to monetize those eyeballs with high-margin advertising opportunities for pharma companies.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:22 - Why Doximity is so uniquely positioned to capitalize on pharmaceutical marketing
00:01:42 - How much of the U.S. health care system is still plagued by bureaucratic admin work, and the opportunity that creates for Doximity
00:03:40 - What makes Doximity’s ecosystem so useful for physicians at all stages of their career
00:10:32 - Why Doximity uses subscription-based advertising options
00:25:26 - How the company protects doctors’ privacy and saves them hours a week doing admin tasks with HIPAA-compliant generative AI tools
00:26:01 - How Doximity uses productivity tools to complement its social networking service
00:44:22 - The risks and moats of having a business so concentrated on one industry
00:56:17 - How to think about modeling DOCS’ intrinsic value
01:02:36 - Whether Shawn and Daniel add DOCS to their Intrinsic Value Portfolio
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Daniel Mahncke and Shawn O’Malley take a deep dive into Meta — the world’s most powerful attention engine, spanning Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, and still driven primarily by advertising. They break down how Meta’s “Family of Apps” keeps compounding through better AI-driven content discovery and ad targeting, while new surfaces like Reels, Threads, and WhatsApp monetization expand inventory and improve the long-term revenue mix.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:04:02 - How much money the Metaverse failure cost 00:06:19 - How AR glasses could replace smartphones 00:23:48 - Why Reality Labs will likely yield average returns at best 00:29:50 - What AI efforts Meta is implementing 00:32:10 - Why Meta’s AI projects are not as bad as investors think 00:35:37 - How the ad engine works 00:41:31 - How WhatsApp and AI content could benefit Meta 00:57:06 - Whether Shawn and Daniel add Meta to the portfolio
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