“I think if they don’t have much top line growth, what’s the room for a mistake? … that’s very important.”

In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · John Armitage: How He Invests, Building Egerton, and What Worries Him About AI

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states that companies with low top-line growth are riskier because they have little room for error

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