Brandon Dawson
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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And private equity usually has a fuse on it somewhere between four and seven years.
And if you're trying to personally scale up and learn all these different things, at the same time, you've got to create the product, deliver the product, make the product work, make sure it's differentiated in the marketplace.
That timing usually doesn't work out.
So they start bringing new people in and they start cramming down and you need more funding.
And next thing you know, you don't have control of your company.
They do.
And they've got better choices because the thing you built worked, but they don't need you involved anymore.
And you don't know how to
handle the other aspects of the business, which is how and who, and you end up getting replaced.
And that's usually, and Steve Jobs even went through that cycle.
So that's usually what happens.
And if you don't have the stomach for that, and statistically, if you're going to be the 32 that fail versus the one that succeeds, then I think there's a different way to do it, which is the way you did it and the way I've done it now four times over.
Yeah, so when I launched the business, first of all, I was the first person to create a what I call reverse consolidation equity model.
The problem with consolidation is you go raise capital from VC or private equity.
You go out and start acquiring a whole bunch of other people's problems.
Then you got to systematize them.
Then you need to build leadership.
You need all this complexity.
And so usually you go through a period of when you're buying, you go through devaluation on your way there.
So you're always trying to raise more capital.
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