Asheville Capital Management's Jake Barfield on InPost's scaling moat

Jake Barfield, Founder & Portfolio Manager at Asheville Capital Management, joins the podcast to share his thesis on InPost Group, Europe’s leading e-commerce logistics enabler.

Jake Barfield's write-up on InPost: https://jakebarfield.substack.com/p/inpost-inpst-investment-thesis

Chapters:

[0:00] Introduction + Episode sponsor: Fintool

[2:23] What is InPost and why are they interesting to Jake

[4:24] What Jake is seeing with InPost that the market is missing

[5:46] Push back on Jake's thesis + European parcel delivery differences to US

[14:48] Relationship with Allegro

[20:27] Why aren't landlords sticking it to InPost

[23:55] Competitive analysis

[34:32] Market penetration; Polish market and how they are trying to gain market share in UK and France

[45:06] Valuation

[55:26] Call options and gamification of customer experience

[1:00:56] Advent involvement; how does Jake think about empire building risk

[1:05:45] What would have to happen for InPost thesis to not work and final thoughts

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