Brandon Dawson
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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You're always trying, you're always got, you know, the idea you could be out of business anytime.
So more money, more money, more money, more money.
Your story gets diluted.
People stop believing in you.
Every time you do a valuation, the next round evaluation, it gets less in value because you need more money.
And so you go through all this, what I call the devaluation cycle when you're using other people's money.
and then you ultimately lose and give up control.
And then it becomes, is it really worth it with everybody mad at you and things not working?
And those are the cycles.
So if you know that that's what you need to be prepared for, then the other option is bootstrap your company, be in control of it and learn to force the company to make money.
And if the company doesn't make money,
You don't have a lot of headaches because you don't have a lot of people.
And if the company does make money and you set up your reserves, you have enough money to invest in the next iteration.
And if you make a mistake, you don't have somebody cutting your throat because you don't know what you're doing and they're going to get rid of you.
And so I would look at, when I was running around with my private equity groups, I was looking at what they would define as platform companies.
A platform company is between 125, 175 million.
It has leadership.
It has systems.
It has processes.
It's profitable.
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