matt lessimore

Running RNSH @darwinexchange

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

It’s always harder, takes longer, and costs more than you think it will.

And it's still worth it.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

@texashedge0 1. Listen to every episode of @FoundersPodcast
2. Find a simple idea and take it seriously.

[Aristo @aristomarinetti]

Deep in his heart every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live and a beauty to rescue.

[PrivateEquityGuy (Mikk Markus) @PrivatEquityGuy]

Giuseppe turned 30, raised $25M, and bought two traditional niche businesses. You ask, "What's the best part?"

He plans to hold these businesses permanently, never selling them...

My conversation with Giuseppe Balzano, founder of Novaterra, a permanent capital holding company acquiring niche industrial businesses with defensible technology and intellectual property.

1. Why he's building a company he never wants to sell.
2. How he convinced 15+ investors to commit $25 million without a planned exit.
3. Buying tiny industrial monopolies that most investors have never heard of.
4. How he screened 1,300 companies to find his next acquisitions.
5. Convincing 80-year-old founders to sell businesses they've spent their lives building.
6. Why he refuses to replace CEOs or fix businesses that aren't broken.
7. Why he believes time is his greatest competitive advantage.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Building a company he never wants to sell
3:56 The mentor who shaped his long-term thinking
7:20 Why he left venture capital to build something permanent
9:42 Why Italy's industrial businesses are overlooked
12:29 Solo founders, co-founders, and playing the long game
15:05 How he learns and makes investment decisions
18:29 Inside his first two industrial acquisitions
23:37 The next acquisition: water management
24:25 Growing businesses without chasing growth
29:44 Finding acquisition targets other buyers miss
34:14 How to win the trust of family business owners
40:07 The brutal reality of raising $25 million
44:22 The numbers behind his fundraising process
48:12 Deal structuring: debt, equity, and ownership
50:09 Managing acquisitions without replacing CEOs
57:22 Founder incentives and building an ownership culture
1:02:49 Why finding great people is harder than finding deals
1:05:11 Building a legacy despite the odds
1:10:49 The road to a self-funding industrial compounder

[Kieran Duff @kieran__duff]

Claude funnel with an outstanding build again today.

This has had zero modifications outside of the original source that my funnel used.

A specific edge for yen pairs (long & short).

Profitable on USDJPY, EURJPY, GBPJPY, AUDJPY and CADJPY.

Strategy clue: research Gotobi Days.

[Midnite @midnite]

Where would Man City be if they didn’t cheat? 🤷🏻‍♂️

We’ve taken the money pumped into the club by their owners, worked out which signings it funded each season and removed every Premier League goal those players scored.

Here’s what the leagues would look like…

A Thread 🧵👇🏼

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

If you want to achieve outlandish success you have to be willing to work like an unyielding, unrelenting psycho for a decade.

You have to learn the violent level of unbalanced effort you’re capable of before claiming to know balance.

Lock in. Win. Then dial in the sweet spot.

[Nic Munoz @nic_munoz]

books that'll teach you How To Think Like A Genius:

[Reece Wabara @ReeceWabara]

Q3 @ManiereDeVoir

(YoY)

Net revenue +50% 
Gross margin +3.0% 
Gross profit post marketing +69%
Net AOV +21%

5 consecutive quarters of double digit revenue & gross profit growth

YTD Net Revenue +72%

[Steph from OpenVC @StephNass]

I love reading Elon's emails! 😂

Is there a compilation somewhere?

Can someone build elonmails․com?

[Nic Munoz @nic_munoz]

Every man in their 20s should study these people (In no particular order)

*Alexander the Great
*Napoleon Bonaparte
*Isaac Newton
*Elon Musk
*Julius Caesar
*Albert Einstein
*John D. Rockefeller
*Andrew Carnegie
*Richard Feynman

But most important of all, people should read the Bible and study the life of Jesus Christ.

For even Napoleon said:

"I know men, and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man."

[Nic Munoz @nic_munoz]

Men in their 20s need to study Napoleon. When he was young he was made fun of by his peers. They called him a tiny chap. They made fun of his 'ridiculous name'. They said his coat was too long. They mocked his Corsican accent. They resented him for being poor. He wrote to his father "I am tired of explaining my poverty, of having to endure the mockery of these foreign boys, whose only superiority is in respect of money, for in nobility of feeling they are far beneath me. Must I really humble myself before these purse-proud fellows?" Who knew that he would go on to conquer the world. People should study this story, and realize that all pain and hardship can lead to something bigger.

[Nic Munoz @nic_munoz]

Guys in their 20s need to be biography maxxing. Here are 7 biographies that every man must read:

-Napoleon by Emil Ludwig
-Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman
-Caesar by Philip Freeman
-Titan by Ron Chernow
-Hannibal by Philip Freeman
-Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
-Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

Read these and you will be ahead of 99% of people.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

So let me get this straight: we’re now going after the SAS for not being angelic, for swearing too much, and for having a bit of gallows humour? I want them to be steely-eyed dealers of death, not choirboys. Can we please stop this insane persecution of our most elite warriors!

[Monitoring the Situation @monitoringmeme]

My girl had tickets for Primetime tonight. I had other plans.

[Iwan Barber @iwanbarber1]

@liamgallagher, any chance of a Manchester code please butt? Any of the saturday dates will do

[Nic Munoz @nic_munoz]

Napoleon's work habits for maximum efficiency:

This episode is not for the commoners.

It is only for those seeking True Greatness.

Napoleon was one of the greatest humans to ever walk on this earth, and diving into his work philosophy is often the key difference between greatness and mediocrity.

Every great man from Winston Churchill to Elon Musk has studied Napoleon.

And look where it got them.

I personally read over 2,000 pages on Napoleon and extracted the top 15 work habits for founders and CEOs.

Once again, this video is not for the commoners, only for those seeking greatness.

Enjoy.

00:00 Intro
00:39 Compartmentalization
05:56 Sleep Around The Work
08:50 Dictation At All Hours
13:16 The Correspondence Machine
18:51 Eat Little Food
21:42 Complete Concentration
25:06 Create Systems
29:16 Speed, Speed, Speed
32:16 Constantly Asking For More
35:12 Boundless, Boundless Energy
39:46 Never Leave The Scene Of Action
42:39 Be In The Weeds
45:18 Remedy By Extreme
47:50 Allow For Flexibility
49:59 Study The Greats

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Napoleon: The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Episode #432 The Mind of Napoleon:

0:00 — " This book gives you insight into the mind of a man who combined energy of thought and energy of action to an exceptional degree."

0:30 — "Work is my element. I am born and built for work. I have known the limitations of my legs, I have known the limitations of my eyes; I have never been able to know the limitations of my working capacity."

0:52 — "He knows that men have always been the same, that nothing can change their nature. It is from the past that he will draw his lessons in order to shape the present."

1:33 — "All my life I have sacrificed everything: comfort, self-interest, happiness, to my destiny. Destiny must be fulfilled that is my chief doctrine."

2:33 — "A consecutive series of great actions never is the result of chance and luck; it always is a product of planning and genius.

2:40 — "What is luck? The ability to exploit accidents: The vulgar would call this luck, but in fact it is the characteristic of genius."

3:30 — "Hesitation is fatal; once an action is begun, it must be followed through with the utmost exertion of the will."

3:44 — "If I have any ambition, it is so natural to me, so innate, so intimately linked with my existence, that it is like the blood that circulates in my veins, like the air that I breathe."

4:14 — "To have lived without glory, without leaving a trace of one's existence, is to have not lived at all."

6:25 — "Without great men, we have only mediocre men, and if there had never been anything but mediocre men, we would still be half apes."

7:20 — "The great majority of men attend to what is necessary only when they feel a need for it-the precise time when it is too late."

7:30 — "True character always pierces through in moments of crisis. There are sleepers whose awakening is terrifying."

9:11 — "Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions."

11:15 — "The truth is that everything around us is miracle."

15:18 — "Men of genius are meteors destined to be consumed in lighting up their century."

16:13 —  "A man must know himself. Until then, all endeavors are in vain and all schemes collapse."

17:53 — "All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything."

18:12 —  "What I am, I owe to strength of will, character, application, and daring."

19:27 — "Imagination rules the world."

20:58 — " History I conquered rather than studied. That is to say, I wanted from it, and retained of it, only what could add to my ideas. I spurned what was of no use, and I seized upon certain conclusions that pleased me."

26:01 — " It is better to eat than be eaten."

26:08 — "Appetite comes with eating."

 27:43 — "It may be possible to arrest the surge of progress or to throttle it, but not to destroy it."

29:01 — " I have read your letter. It is utterly worthless. There are too many words and not enough ideas."

31:08 —  "Without talent, without knowledge, there is no equality but the equality of misery and servitude."

33:46 — Napoleon to someone who hasn't studied history: " Speak as little as possible. Your knowledge is too limited, and your education has been too neglected for you to engage freely in discussions."

36:08 — "The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.”

36:44 — "If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity."

39:30 — "In war, men are nothing. One man is everything."

40:20 — "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and without glory is to die every day."

46:23 — "Conquest made me what I am. Conquest alone can keep me there."

46:34 — "Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me."

47:13 — "My soul is made of marble. Lightning has found no grip on it and had to slide off of it. I have no fear of becoming their victim. They will be biting into granite."