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Kevin Tawil

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Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

While Jim and I had confidence, our board didn't have the same level of confidence.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

So there's this element of when you're, particularly when you're doing acquisitions, you never want to bet the farm.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

Like you don't want this to be, the acquisition doesn't go the way you think, then it takes the whole thing down.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

My rule of thumb there is max 20, 25% of enterprise value.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

I will deviate from that by commission.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

We're going to get to that by the way, but yes, go ahead.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

I remember one of our board members thought this was the stupidest idea in the world.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

It's like, who would buy insurance for your cell phones?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

At the time, you may recall, cell phones were sort of free.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

They were given away as part of your wireless plan if you signed up for a contract.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

And he was like, why would you do this?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

We had confidence we didn't know for sure, but we also knew, because the roadside assistance business at that point was so much bigger, that it wouldn't have killed us if things didn't go as we expected.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

Yeah, with cash flow or debt, yeah.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

We didn't have a ton of networking capital that was required to grow the business.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

We inherited that structure.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

There's certainly wind in our sails, if you will.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

And then we'll talk a little bit about capital allocation topic.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Asurion: 50X Season Two - (50X, S2)

That was an exciting time.