Fmr Apollo PE, Viking HF, (junior). Now operate small holding vehicle in Bermuda focused on goats cheese and rollups.tuckersfarm.com BermudaJoined June 2024
my wife often reminds me that the only thing in this world that is less interesting than my deals, is my fantasy football roster.
But the below auction results might be the best thing i've ever done (granted 8 team league and I had some awesome keeper contracts coming into this…
i increasingly think a meaningful barrier to financial entrepreneurship is an unwillingness to suffer indignities (which are constant).
The upside is immense - freedom, wealth creation, fulfillment, status etc (theoretically(1))
But when you’re the 35yo leaving kkr to start…
Star Gas in 2003 (rollup, $sgu). I think @BrentBeshore awesomely describes the issues w centralization in his annual letter (at some point I’ll share Brent’s take and credit brent in small font at the bottom of my post).
‘shared services’, ‘centralization’, ‘synergies’ etc –…
i guess i just assumed Matt and Alex or like Greg Flynn invented the sale leaseback but looks like uncle carl etc were old hats w the techmology (snip from King Ichan, 1982)
(And per chatgpt, ancient rome had slbs?)
Love creative RE financing but I do think the new generation…
the boys just looking for a juicy SOTP or AGI (respectively) or any good game to play. Happy bday uncle Warren! 1
Long live Fierce Nerds (@paulg, 2021)
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pls be in touch if you're selling $3m+ EBIT (esp if in rollupable category)
Live shot of our AI implementations at Tucker's Farm Corporation
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills hearing all the AI/VC + boring-business narratives
I can’t tell if it’s all a grift or we’re just bad at AI (v possible)
But we’ve invested a wild amount of $, time, energy…
when I started in this game (small asset aggregations) I used to repeat finance guy canon “there’s a price for everything”. Mostly because I thought it sounded smart. Partly because I thought it was true.
But man I have totally changed my mind on this.
Sure if there’s like…
like 6 different hedge fund folks sent me this story of the OpenAI 23yo raising $1.5bn on launch (goat farming is natural adjacency to AI hedge funds)
I think it’s just another example of the life rule (besides continued goofy flows/valuations around AI):
𝘖𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦…
🚨new CEO-in-training on the farm! I told my wife that Cameron Sarnevesht has young quarterback energy (she said I have ‘old kicker energy’ – think that means I’m reliable right🤔)
Don’t know Cam well yet but he’s a couple weeks in and has already dialed-up the finance guy…
and they said koch didn't have a rollup in her!
(actually a de novo story but nonetheless high reinvestment/ROI play in uniform assets)
As usual pls reach out to if you're selling a $4m+ EBIT biz, especially if in a fragmented/rollupable category!
(snip from kochland,…
I guess I always figured Standard Oil was the 1st rollup / aggregation in the US and a totally novel move (different story for EU – see basically anything from adam smith - asset pooling super common way back) but of course it wasn’t! (snip from Chernow/Titan)
I saw this and thought it was funny: “Daughter from California is often described as angry, articulate, and uninformed”
Think something similar happens in our business (rollups / small asset aggregations)
At some point the seller brings in her deal wiz friend or her nephew or…
sneaky good searchfund piece from aj wasserstein (yale). Empirically, 1) margins go down and stay down (jcurve isn’t real),
2) revenue/EBITDA growth is still real (~35% IRR, ~4.5 MOIC)
3) acquisition mults don’t vary with size (this is odd as it doesn’t really jive with…
Live shot of me running our Monday deal meeting at Tucker's Farm Corp.
I think of this Seinfeld quote a lot (but re rollup incubation / investing generally) –
“So I have two phases. There is the free-play creative phase. Then there is the polish and construction phase…[In…
man one of those tough days…lost a deal we spent ungodly time and $ on 🥴. It was kinda the dad-bod of LBO’s/biz quality – charming and signs of once-greatness, but soft fundamentals underneath
And there were some yellow-seller-flags early on (his house smelled like my 4yo's…
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