Oct 31, 20266 minS1
Horizontal subscription software looks like a machine until new bookings quietly paper over departing customers. We dissect the paid-seat economics, the retention math that decides whether the sales machine is an...
About this Podcast:
Why does Costco make most of its profit from memberships? Why do some airlines thrive while others go bankrupt? Moats & Margins breaks down the unit economics and competitive advantages behind the world’s most interesting businesses. Each episode takes one company or industry and follows the money: what it costs to win a customer, what each sale really earns, and what keeps competitors out. Clear, numbers-driven, and jargon-free. For founders, investors, operators, and anyone curious how great businesses actually work.
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What is Moats & Margins about?
Why does Costco make most of its profit from memberships? Why do some airlines thrive while others go bankrupt? Moats & Margins breaks down the unit economics and competitive advantages behind the world’s most interesting businesses.
Who hosts Moats & Margins?
Moats & Margins is hosted by Thousand Bagger. The show has published 13 episodes to date.
What has Moats & Margins covered recently?
Recent episodes include "#21: Why New Sales Can Hide a Churn Problem, SaaS truth" (31 October 2026, 6 minutes), "#20: The Daycare That Can't Fire Its Teachers, Step costs" (30 October 2026, 6 minutes), and "#19: Your Gym's Best Member Never Shows Up, fitness clubs" (29 October 2026, 4 minutes).
How often does Moats & Margins publish?
Moats & Margins publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 6 minutes across 13 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Moats & Margins?
Booking probability for Moats & Margins is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Moats & Margins requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Moats & Margins's contact route on record: public web form.
Who should pitch Moats & Margins?
The strongest fits for Moats & Margins are Business & Management Consulting. Moats & Margins has a business audience.
About the host
Thousand Bagger hosts Moats & Margins, a business podcast with 13 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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- Oct 30, 20266 minS1
A packed daycare with full rooms and thin margins shows why costs move in steps, not smooth curves — one empty classroom can wipe out the year's profit. We break down the occupied-place economics, the staffing ratios...
- Oct 29, 20264 minS1
The fitness club sells one thing — the option to turn up — and its best member is the quiet one who pays every month and never crowds the floor. This episode builds the economics of the paying member month: seventy-five...
- Oct 28, 20264 minS11
A theme park spends hundreds of millions before a single family walks in — then each extra visitor adds ticket and food contribution at almost no cost. This episode builds the economics of the visitor day: eighty...
- Oct 27, 20265 minS1
A cruise ship is a hotel, a restaurant row, and a vessel that burns fuel all at once — and every empty cabin on sailing day is lost forever. This episode builds the unit economics of the passenger cruise day, from three...
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- Oct 26, 20265 minS1
The sign over the door says the brand, but the building belongs to someone else — and that split is one of the cleverest structures in business. This episode takes apart the hotel franchisor and manager: a four-percent...
- Oct 25, 20265 minS1
Walk the empty corridors of a two-hundred-room hotel at eleven at night and you see the owner's predicament: the mortgage does not care about occupancy. This episode breaks down the hotel property owner — the available...
- Oct 24, 20266 minS1
Eleven cars deep at seven-fifteen in the morning — every coffee shop lives or dies by the two-minute window. This episode builds a single coffee shop from the ground up: a six-dollar average ticket times five hundred...
- Oct 23, 20265 minS1
A restaurant cannot store an empty Tuesday table and sell it on Saturday. This episode takes apart the full service restaurant: the guest cover and table hour as the economic unit, a thirty-five dollar ticket against...
- Oct 22, 20265 minS1
McDonald's owns almost none of its kitchens, yet takes a slice of everything they sell. This episode dissects the restaurant franchisor: the franchised restaurant year as the economic unit, a six percent royalty on...
- Oct 21, 20265 minS1
Inside a Chipotle at twelve fifteen, the line looks like a money machine. This episode takes apart the company-operated quick service restaurant: the order as the economic unit, a fifteen dollar ticket against food...
- Oct 20, 20266 minS1
The storefront is a rectangle on your phone — this brand rents attention instead of retail space. This episode dissects the direct-to-consumer product brand: two hundred thousand customers, two orders each, a...
- Oct 14, 20265 minS1
The first bottle is expensive — not the liquid, the customer. This episode dissects branded beauty: five million bottles at twenty dollars, an eighteen percent margin, and a sixty-seven-and-a-half percent return on...
- Oct 14, 20265 minS1
Before a cereal box reaches your kitchen, it negotiated twice — with farmers over grain, then with supermarkets over shelf space. This episode takes apart the packaged food manufacturer: ten million cases at twenty...
- Oct 13, 20265 minS1
There is a waiting list you cannot buy your way onto — and the company likes it that way. This episode takes apart the luxury goods brand: twenty thousand products at five thousand dollars each, a thirty percent margin...
- Oct 11, 20265 minS1
Two coats, same price tag — one sells in November at full price, the other dies in a January clearance. This episode dissects the apparel specialty retailer: five hundred thousand garments at eighty dollars, a thirty...
- Oct 10, 20266 minS1
A three-dollar bottle of dish soap still needs someone to unpack it, price it, shelve it, and ring it up — the touches cost what the touches cost. This episode takes apart the discount variety retailer: two million...
- Oct 10, 20268 minS1
The merchandise barely breaks even — the membership fee is the profit. This episode dissects the warehouse club: two businesses stapled together, the math of a hundred-million-dollar warehouse earning three-percent...
- Oct 9, 20267 minS1
A supermarket sells a million baskets a year and keeps five cents on the dollar — yet earns nearly 19% on its capital. This episode takes apart the basket as the economic unit: where the forty million goes, why a 10%...
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