DJ Carroll
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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I don't know if we can say that word now or not, but I think it cooled down enough to that it's just going to rally into that. But yeah, man, that's cool. I didn't know that 40% rule, so thank you for sharing that with me. Yeah, the rule of 40 in software. Rule of 40.
Taking a partner on, like at what point and for what reason?
You've got to be very careful, man. Yeah. I mean, Dan talks about that, like when he sold one of his companies, right? He like left like millions on the table and he was like out. He was like, I'm done. He like left before one of his exes, like, you know, whatever his contract was afterwards. And you hear horror stories like that all the time.
And that's I'm trying to figure out, like, do you sell a big piece earlier? Like, do I go find somebody 10 percent, get them in bed to get us like to our next iteration to hold it back? That's why I haven't taken on any money yet is because I'm like, we're profitable. I'm making money. out of that accelerator that we went through, I'm actually the only company that's left.
The other three are out of business already. And that was in 2021. So it's like, and they had, I mean, one of the dudes, they had raised like two and a half million bucks. I'm just like, how do you burn through that much cash? You know, it's like crazy.
I almost feel like I've got too much integrity. Some of these founders that I've talked to... Like one of the dudes that was in our accelerator, that business crashed and burned. He's out. He raised another seed round, crashed and burned. He's on his third fucking venture, dude, since 21. And I'm like, one, how the hell does this guy keep raising money from people, right?
It's like having an STD and still getting partners. And then the other one is like, how in the hell does he like have the balls to still think like, oh, yeah, but my next business idea will be the billion dollar unicorn. That's what I just I don't understand it, man. I don't know.
Yeah.
Okay. I really like Ish a lot. Yeah. He's a sharp guy. I met him in Dallas. Jamie Waits, AC Hero. He had like a house party years ago. And it was him and several other guys. But I remember him talking about... Back then, dude, he was talking about the Google...
the google lsas and like it was brand new on the scene and his big thing was like they're recording us so they got all this data to like know what people are asking for and stuff so they can train their algorithms better it's pretty crazy he's a sharp guy man look i think he's gonna make newbie into something he texts me pretty much every day yeah and he's just giving me updates and i always give him ideas like you got to figure out how to get the equipment free in the house
Yeah, the third one. Where you get the STDs. Yes.
Yeah. I've got 73 units in Louisville that I syndicated with some guys out of Chicago. And I did that when I was in my mid twenties, probably one of the best things I ever did, man. Got in early. We owe less than a, I made a post on Instagram about it the other day. We owe less than a million bucks on a portfolio is worth over three and a half million dollars. We return to
all the capital back to the partners. It's beautiful, dude. Unless you just really don't know what you're doing and just buy something at the top of the market, it's almost impossible to not make money with real estate. It goes up.
Ruthlessly prioritize.
Ooh.
Because you're the only one that sees it, though.
That's a revenue goal. That's not a five-year goal, right?
Yeah. I just know that when we were engineering Allie, so she's trained on like 50 hours worth of sales and 50 hours worth of service calls. And the large language model that we build her on,
when it was like cool we have to have it in this certain thing i had to go like hire this like computer science guy out of like tunisia and the two months it took him to like get all this stuff together by the time i took it back the large language model was like hey you could just give us transcripts i'm like i spent thousands of dollars and two months worth of work and i come back and the technology is caught up to like not even needing that anymore that's why i think it's like impossible to even plan five years out dude because it's like elon you might be able to buy elon robot's
bro, in five years and they'll fucking put the garage doors in. Like, you know what I mean?
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