Manifesto · MMXXVI

Twelve convictions, held expensively.

What follows is the firm's standing document. It is reviewed quarterly by the partnership, ignored daily by the market, and validated, on average, every eighteen months.

  1. 01

    We were told to build the future. We chose, instead, to underwrite it.

  2. 02

    The market is not a mechanism. It is a mood.

  3. 03

    Convenience compounds. So do its second-order effects. We invest in both.

  4. 04

    A product is the visible fragment of a much larger dependency.

  5. 05

    We do not predict inevitabilities. We accelerate their depreciation schedule.

  6. 06

    Every recurring revenue line is a quiet act of trust transfer.

  7. 07

    Brand is balance sheet. Taste is a hedge against commoditization.

  8. 08

    We are bullish on solitude, fluent in attention, and long on resignation.

  9. 09

    The org chart is a prompt. Management is a legacy interface.

  10. 10

    We respect founders who can describe their company in one sentence and their moat in none.

  11. 11

    We hold ten-year positions in twenty-year inevitabilities.

  12. 12

    Capital is a moral document. Ours is being notarized in real time.

— The Partnership, MinimallyUseful Industries
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