family office // backing ambitious owner-operators
Columbus, OH
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Matt Bennett retweeted
The barrier to buy & build great companies has never been lower:
Helpful tweets + people to help make it happen:
Matt Bennett retweeted
I offer 1/10,000th of a Bitcoin to whomever can provide the best/most creative answer to the following case study on meeting consumer demand..
Its not just the ability to aggregate demand, but to capture it.
I'll provide my response in a few days 😛
The case as a 🧵 below:
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1/ In the spirit of a remix, I have been meaning to put together a list of the big foundational ideas - the mental tools that have helped me make sense of the investment world.
Which ideas have had the biggest impact on how you invest?
Matt Bennett retweeted
This = MASTER CLASS.
A must-read (or hear if you wait until tomorrow when Bezos reads it to Congress) in entrepreneurship, leadership, value-creation, invention, immigration, philanthropy, environmental stewardship.
The team alongside Jeff Bezos writing this is 💯
LETS DIG IN
Matt Bennett retweeted
Ideas to improve marketing to your Family Office / Sponsor deal to the Senior Bank Market (THREAD)
Your equity thesis isn’t my debt thesis. Very important to understand why you are buying the company but your focus is to maximize return and ours is to minimize loss (1)
Matt Bennett retweeted
This really resonated.
Big company execs seldom transition well to SMBs.
Cats Meow, Dogs Bark - mailchi.mp/chenmark/catsmeow… the perils of bringing a big business leader into a small business setting
@randyhetrick
@theSamParr
@ShaanVP
Matt Bennett retweeted
There’s no “should” or “shouldn’t” - at least in the moral sense.
As Bezos put it: “There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less.”
Unless you’re a luxury brand, working to charge more is a path to irrelevance.
Matt Bennett retweeted
It often takes just as much work to go after a mediocre opportunity as it does a great one.
Matt Bennett retweeted
In 2006 I almost made one of the most expensive mistakes in history of business. FB was growing in English-speaking countries but there was a clone (red instead of blue) in Germany that most college students were using. Based on my experience at Amzn, I thought we should acquire
Matt Bennett retweeted
One of the great posts on investing ever, by @GrahamDuncanNYC
The Playing Field
"The great ones view investing as a game, and they know exactly what game they’re playing."
grahamduncan.blog/the-playin…
Matt Bennett retweeted
Updated my "Consolidated Learnings" document again -- marked and clean versions attached and linked below: upslopecapital.com/s/Consoli…
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Let's do this.
1/ Buffett: "Most people come to our meeting to hear Charlie. At 96 he is in fine shape. It didn't seem like a good idea to have him come to this meeting. Charlie is in fine shape and he will be back next year." Charlie is now doing video streaming meetings.
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Awesome collection of Coronavirus memos from VCs, hedge fund managers, and execs:
drive.google.com/file/d/17xK…