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Derek Capo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
302 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

And like within a couple of weeks, you know, oil back then was, I think 40, 34, 30 or $40 a barrel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

And, you know, they had hedging on their contracts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

And so they were able to protect their profits and,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

And so that's kind of like the story.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

And they were still growing like 30, 40% a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

So it was a really good growth story.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

So, and then I think they went down to like two or three bucks after.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

Yeah, that's correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

That's interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

Usually whenever we make investments, we always try to look for a catalyst that's going to happen within the next three to six months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

It's going to get the stock to move higher, whether it's a corporate event, whether it's earning surprises, whether it's a strike basically not happening or something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

I mean, specifically with airlines.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

Um, so there's always something like hedge fund.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

People are always looking for catalysts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

There's gotta be something that has to happen with an X amount of time period.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

And if nothing happens, two things, uh, either they unwind their position because they don't want to wait any longer or they put them along and they just want to cut their losses or they get active.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

In other words, they get involved, they start buying even more shares and they figure out ways to get what they want through.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

They turn into Bill Ackman.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

They turn into Bill Ackman.