According to @QCompounding, William Thorndike's The Outsiders profiles eight unconventional CEOs who prioritized capital allocation and outperformed the market. Source: @QCompounding on X, Dec 21, 2025.

According to @QCompounding, Tom Murphy repurchased large amounts of Capital Cities stock at cheap valuations during market downturns and treated buybacks as investments that became a major source of shareholder returns, citing The Outsiders by William Thorndike as the source. Thorndike documents that disciplined repurchases at undervalued prices increased per-share value and compounded long-term results for Capital Cities and later Capital Cities/ABC shareholders, per The Outsiders by William Thorndike. For trading, monitoring companies that reduce share count and disclose repurchase activity in monthly detail can identify similar capital allocation discipline, per U.S. SEC Regulation S-K Item 703 disclosure requirements. In crypto, supply-reduction mechanics offer a comparable framework through BNB’s quarterly auto-burn that permanently removes BNB from circulation, per Binance’s BNB Auto-Burn methodology. Ethereum’s EIP-1559 burns base fees and has at times resulted in net ETH supply decreases during periods of high network activity, per Ethereum Foundation resources on EIP-1559. During broad drawdowns, screens that prioritize undervaluation and net reduction of float align with Murphy’s playbook and can inform equity and token selection, per @QCompounding’s summary and Thorndike’s The Outsiders.