<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Teardown</title><description>Daily deep dives on dominant and fast-growing companies in retail, ecommerce, logistics, supply chain, insurance, energy, and construction.</description><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/</link><item><title>Deep dive: Auger</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/auger/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/auger/</guid><description>Auger deep dive: Dave Clark&apos;s AI supply chain startup, $150M raised, Meta Reality Labs and Fanatics as customers, and whether an execution layer can beat the ERP incumbents.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Bloom Energy</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/bloom-energy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/bloom-energy/</guid><description>Bloom Energy deep dive: solid oxide fuel cells, the ~$20B backlog and what is actually contracted, Oracle and Brookfield, GE Vernova&apos;s turbine wall, the Hunterbrook short case, and whether the AI power premium holds.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: EquipmentShare</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/equipmentshare/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/equipmentshare/</guid><description>EquipmentShare deep dive: the EQPT Nasdaq IPO, $4.38B in 2025 revenue, the OWN Program that funds 56% of the fleet, T3 telematics, the Umibozu short report, and whether the tech premium survives.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Michaels</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/michaels/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/michaels/</guid><description>Michaels deep dive: the 1973 Dallas origin, the 2006 Bain/Blackstone LBO, the 2014 IPO, Apollo&apos;s 2021 take-private, the 2025 tariff near-death experience, the $4.85B 2026 refinancing, custom framing economics, MakerPlace, and whether the comeback is durable or cyclical.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Nirvana Insurance</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/nirvana-insurance/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/nirvana-insurance/</guid><description>Nirvana Insurance deep dive: $1.5B valuation, $100M Series D led by Valor, the MGA structure and who really carries the risk, real premium price points, competitors, and the reserve question nobody has answered.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Applied Systems</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/applied-systems/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/applied-systems/</guid><description>Applied Systems deep dive: the Applied Epic agency management system, the Ivans carrier data exchange, Hellman &amp; Friedman&apos;s ownership, the Vertafore duopoly, and what agents actually say.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Blue Yonder</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/blue-yonder/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/blue-yonder/</guid><description>Blue Yonder deep dive: JDA Software&apos;s four-decade roll-up, Panasonic&apos;s $8.5B acquisition, the 2024 Termite ransomware attack, decelerating SaaS growth, and whether AI-native challengers can crack it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: C.H. Robinson</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/ch-robinson/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/ch-robinson/</guid><description>C.H. Robinson deep dive: the $18B freight broker, net revenue vs. gross, the Ancora campaign that installed Dave Bozeman, and the AI disintermediation scare.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Corgi</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/corgi/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/corgi/</guid><description>Corgi deep dive: $374M raised, a valuation that doubled in three weeks to $2.6B, the Technology Risk Retention Group structure nobody explains, real premium price points, four lawsuits, and the reserve question.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Bob&apos;s Discount Furniture</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/bobs-discount-furniture/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/bobs-discount-furniture/</guid><description>Bob&apos;s Discount Furniture deep dive: the 1991 Newington origin, Bain Capital&apos;s 2014 buyout, the February 2026 NYSE IPO at $17, Vietnam tariff exposure, Goof Proof economics, and the 500-store plan.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Crusoe</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/crusoe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/crusoe/</guid><description>Crusoe deep dive: from flared-gas bitcoin mining to the Abilene Stargate campus — the bitcoin exit, the project debt, GPU pricing, and the emissions fight.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Faire</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/faire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/faire/</guid><description>Faire deep dive: two-sided wholesale mechanics, who carries the credit risk, real commission rates, ~$3B GMV, the $12.4B peak and the $5.2B reset, and the disintermediation question.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Higharc</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/higharc/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/higharc/</guid><description>Higharc deep dive: a 3D spatial database for production homebuilding that auto-generates permit-ready CDs, takeoffs and renders. $95M Series C, US LBM deal, real complaints.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Scan #002: When the moat is someone else&apos;s bottleneck</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/digest/2026-07-14/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/digest/2026-07-14/</guid><description>Five companies across supply chain, insurance, construction, energy, and retail — and a recurring question: how much of today&apos;s advantage is structural, and how much is borrowed from a constraint that will lift?</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Scan #003: The rails and the raiders</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/digest/2026-07-14-scan-003/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/digest/2026-07-14-scan-003/</guid><description>Eight companies — four emerging, four entrenched — and a recurring pattern: the incumbents&apos; moat is a system of record nobody wants to rip out, and the challengers are all betting that stops being true.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Base Power</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/base-power/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/base-power/</guid><description>Base Power deep dive: the vertically integrated home-battery and retail-electricity model, $1.3B raised, $4B valuation, ERCOT gentailer economics, the Illinois expansion, and what customers actually say.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: BuildOps</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/buildops/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/buildops/</guid><description>BuildOps deep dive: field-service and project software for commercial contractors. ~$97M ARR (2025 est.), $1B valuation, 1,500+ contractors, real pricing, real complaints, and whether it can hold the commercial trades against ServiceTitan.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Copeland</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/copeland/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/copeland/</guid><description>Copeland deep dive: Blackstone&apos;s $14B HVACR carve-out, ~$5B revenue scroll compressor incumbent, the A2L refrigerant transition, ~6x leverage, the 2026 IPO, and what contractors and employees actually say.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: HappyRobot</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/happyrobot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/happyrobot/</guid><description>HappyRobot deep dive: vertical AI agents for freight and logistics. $62M raised at ~$500M, the mechanics of an AI carrier-sales call, real traction, and the competitive squeeze from TMS incumbents and general-purpose voice AI.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Kin Insurance</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/kin-insurance/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/kin-insurance/</guid><description>Kin Insurance deep dive: the reciprocal-exchange structure, $634M gross written premium, 49% baseline operating margin, Florida claims-handling fines, and the second run at an IPO.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep dive: Whatnot</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/whatnot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/companies/whatnot/</guid><description>Whatnot deep dive: business model, take-rate economics, $8B GMV growth, $11.5B valuation, TikTok Shop competition, the 2026 gambling litigation, and whether the live-commerce leader is poised or exposed.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Scan #001: Live commerce at scale, batteries as utilities, and Blackstone&apos;s compressor bet</title><link>https://teardown-six.vercel.app/digest/2026-07-13/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://teardown-six.vercel.app/digest/2026-07-13/</guid><description>Six companies across ecommerce, energy, construction, insurance, logistics, and HVACR — five poised, two contested, and one $14B question about legacy incumbency.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>