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The Bus Insurance Startup That Built a $26 Billion Empire (By Serving Customers Nobody Wanted)
While competitors fight over car insurance scraps, Markel quietly built a Fortune 500 company insuring things like thoroughbred horses and marina operators. But here's where it gets weird: they also own 21 random businesses and manage a $34B investment portfolio.
Michigan's $16B Debt-Fueled Monopoly: What CMS Energy Teaches About Regulatory Capture
Michigan's Attorney General calls CMS Energy's habit of requesting rate hikes every single year a "never-ending cycle". Yet they've delivered 22 consecutive years of earnings growth. We decode how they turned poles and wires into a profit machine, why their $700M interest bill matters, and what entrepreneurs can learn from their business.
How Duolingo Turned an Owl Into a $17B Learning Empire (+ the AI Move That Doubled Their Course Catalog Overnight)
Here's how they rebuilt their entire business model while staying profitable. Plus the marketing genius behind turning a language app into a viral meme machine. (Spoiler: the tactics work way beyond EdTech.)