Ryne Ogren

Investor | Marketer | Former Pro Baseball Player

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

My track record:
Former professional baseball player:
• Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles Organizations

Private Equity Investor:
• Acquired 2 companies, successfully exited 1

Power Infrastructure and Data Center Development:
• Connected $750M+ in hyperscale data center and power infrastructure projects
• Consulted and advised on major AI data center developments

I currently own a Power Infrastructure / Data Center Development firm and a Marketing Agency.

I share:
• How the industry actually works
• Deal structures and economics
• Infrastructure bottlenecks (transformers, power, pipelines)
• Career advice for breaking in

Follow for insider perspectives on data centers, power infrastructure, deals, marketing, baseball, lifting, running, surfing, and more. DM me if you're building a project.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

It's amazing to me how much value you can create for someone and then how quickly they can forget about it

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

Business is a game of numbers and then just making those numbers more efficient.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

Most outbound doesn't fail because of volume.

It fails because the message could've been sent to anyone.

If you swap the name at the top and the email still makes sense, it's not outbound. It's spam with better formatting.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

10,000 cold emails to people who don't care will lose to 50 messages to people who actually have the problem you solve. Every time.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

Rolling out AI solutions inside even a small business is not easy. Getting 1 workflow to work consistently and then have it make money is hard enough. Then roll that out to all clients...

These Enterprise level companies have quite the challenge ahead of them. I almost think they might not adopt AI yet because of it.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

Let the AI nerds continue to fight over what the best LLM is... Shift your focus back to making money.

That is all.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

Lowkey you have to be constantly doing 2 ai tasks at once... When you prompt one and it starts to work, you switch to the other and prompt that one... Back and Forth... Back and forth!!!

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

A good contract won't save a bad partnership.

If you need a lawyer to force someone to do the right thing, you already lost the deal.

Do business with people who value their reputation more than a quick payout.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

Most people fail because they are afraid to look stupid.

They would rather be comfortably average than risk failing in public.

The people who win are the ones willing to ask the dumb questions until they understand the deal.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

Complexity is the enemy of execution.

If you can't explain the deal to a ten year old, it is too complicated to fund.

The most profitable transactions are usually the simplest ones to understand.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

You can't outsource your understanding of the downside.

Hire the best lawyers and accountants you can afford.

But if you don't personally understand how the deal can blow up, you have no business signing the term sheet.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

Patience is a weapon.

Most people rush into bad deals because they are terrified of missing out.

The best investors are perfectly comfortable sitting on cash until the right pitch comes across the plate.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

Everyone is looking for the next big tech disruption.

The real money is being made by the people building the physical infrastructure to support it.

Software is a commodity, but dirt and power are finite.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

Your network is not who you know.

Your network is who trusts you to execute when millions of dollars are on the line.

Trust is the only currency that actually scales.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

Stop trying to win every negotiation.

If you squeeze every last penny out of a deal, you lose the relationship.

Leave a little meat on the bone and they will bring you the next deal before it hits the market.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

The most dangerous phrase in business is that we have always done it this way.

That is exactly where the arbitrage lives.

Find the outdated process and you find the profit margin.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

You don't get paid for your time.

You get paid for the size of the problems you solve.

If you want to make more money, stop tracking your hours and start hunting bigger problems.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

You want your LLM to pull from your data... You don't want to feed the LLM data and hope it stores it.

Carry on.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

The best deal makers I know all share one specific trait.

They are completely detached from the outcome.

If a deal dies they don't panic.

They just move to the next one.

Desperation is the loudest emotion in a negotiation room.

If you need the deal to close you have already lost your leverage.

[Ryne Ogren @RyneOgren]

Most people fail in business because they are playing a status game instead of a wealth game.

They want the fancy title and the corner office.

The real players don't care about titles.

They care about equity leverage and cash flow.

Ego is the most expensive liability you can carry on your balance sheet.