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Jun 3
30 days to invoice. 90 days to get paid. 120 days of payroll floating on his own credit line.
He swore he'd never sell. Then he did the math.
Watch the video 👉 youtu.be/pqOnHPMyeN8?si=a8LS… via @YouTube
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Jun 10
Most founders think taking outside money means losing control.
It doesn’t. You can sell 80% and still run the place — or keep 60% and lose every real decision.
The difference is 7 terms buried past page 20.
Wrote them all up for paid subs today 👇
substack.com/home/post/p-201…
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Jun 10
"Money is not the enemy. The 28-year-old with a spreadsheet and a mandate to find efficiencies in a business he couldn't run for a single day. That's the enemy."
A founder told me that this week. He hated PE. Then he took PE money anyway.
Both true. He never hated the money. He hated the control.
Two different products. They come bundled. You're allowed to buy them separately.
Take the money. Keep the controls.
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Jun 10
A founder told me he hated private equity so much he built his own $80M company just to avoid selling to them.
Then he took PE money anyway.
Here’s the distinction that makes both things true 🧵
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Jun 10
7/ So plan for it.
The buyer who EXPECTS you to disengage is the honest one.
The buyer who needs you fired up for 5 years to hit their model is selling a fantasy and you become the problem in your own earnout.
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Jun 10
8/ The fork most owners think they face, “sell to PE or work forever”, is fake.
The real question: who holds the controls the day after you sign?
Today: list every likely buyer. Mark each one “operator” or “checkbook.” You’ll learn more in 10 min than in a year of waiting.
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Ed Weeks Jr. retweeted
Jun 8
A founder told me he hated private equity so much he became the buyer.
Then he took PE money anyway — from a partner who said “we don’t understand your space, keep running it.”
He didn’t reject PE. He rejected PE control.
Take the money. Keep the controls.
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Jun 8
A founder told me he hated private equity so much he became the buyer.
Then he took PE money anyway — from a partner who said “we don’t understand your space, keep running it.”
He didn’t reject PE. He rejected PE control.
Take the money. Keep the controls.
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Jun 6
Nothing on my timeline today except the Knicks!!!
Jun 4
Knicks fans are insane 😭😭😭
“My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior… Knicks in 4!!!”
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Jun 5
After all these years of hate for lukso-token-2:native … I feel like it’s time may have finally come.
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Jun 5
This month I'm writing about the one thing every founder is quietly scared of but won't say out loud:
not "will I get a good price."
but "who holds the controls the day after I sign?"
4 weeks. Real deals. Real numbers.
First up: the two guys who hated PE so much they became the buyer.
Stay close 🧵 soon.
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Jun 5
Leveraging Claude to review all my conversations and tell my story has upped my storytelling game 💪
Jun 4
Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.
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Jun 5
Massively underrated advice.
Jun 5
Stop letting broke, bitter, disloyal people have access to you. Access is a privilege. Treat it like one.
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Jun 4
Spent an hour yesterday with a guy who’s bought 10 MSPs.
The most honest thing he said had nothing to do with money.
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