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[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

A development makes the location not the location makes the development

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

De jure means "by law" and describes what is officially recognized, whereas de facto means "in fact" and describes what happens in practice, regardless of official rules.

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

@acfreedmanlaw Bingo! This needs an honest and deep discussion.

[Louis McKeeve @lmkeev]

https://t.co/iFqpacJS5I

[D4d爸☆ @lovell_d4d]

Momentum in the music industry is fragile. You build it slowly and lose it quickly. The artists who maintain it are not necessarily releasing more — they are staying visible, staying consistent, and staying connected to their audience between releases.

[Adam Freedman @acfreedmanlaw]

You find out you got a placement by hearing your own beat on a song that's already out.

No call. No contract. No nothing

It happens all the time

Here's exactly what to do when you haven't been paid for a placement 🧵

[Roland Frasier @RolandFrasier]

The same system that automates a job you hate also nets you your next deal.

Here’s an example I went through recently…

The job: An auto repair roll-up I’m a part of.
The hated work: Scheduling

Before we automated: The manager was burning 1 to 3 hours a day on scheduling admin. Assignments got made by gut and then reshuffled all day as cars came in.

After we automated: An app does the assignment work. The job goes in, and it decides who works on what. We get 5 hours per week back.

What it changed operationally: You add capacity without adding a body.

EBITDA goes up, but so does the multiple, because a buyer pays more for a shop that runs on a system than a shop that runs on one person’s willpower.

Then, that exact same app becomes a lead magnet.

We give it to repair shop owners to help them make their business more valuable.

Those owners become our coaching clients.

Those coaching clients become the best-qualified leads our acquisition team will ever touch.

So Mike’s formula is right.

But you can take it much further than a subscription.

[Ryan Deiss @ryandeiss]

AI CAN 10X YOUR BUSINESS…

…but most founders have no idea how to do it.

If I had $100K exclusively for AI investment, here's exactly where the money would go:

-AI TWINS

Agents built off of your two or three best workers.
Trained on their job descriptions and existing work. They’re there to multiply their output…NOT to replace them.

-AI ANALYST

Made for the research projects no human should be asked to grind through.

-AI “BRAIN TRUST” ASSISTANT

One for every executive leader.
Analyzes their most critical scorecard metrics on a scheduled basis.

-TRAINING

For the team, to get them used to delegating recurring tasks to these “AI employees.”

$0 spent on replacing humans with AI.

The best AI investment is in amplifying what you’ve already got.

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

Fee rollover in independent sponsor models refers to the practice of reinvesting a sponsor's earned transaction or closing fees into the equity of the newly acquired company. It acts as a critical mechanism to align the sponsor's incentives with their capital providers by putting earned compensation at risk

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

The biggest gains usually come from changing the strategy rather than increasing the effort.

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

Aligned autonomy is an organizational philosophy that empowers teams to make decisions independently (autonomy) while ensuring those choices serve the company's broader goals and strategic vision (alignment).

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

1. Purpose / Mission
2. Vision
3. Core Values
4. Strategic Anchors
5. Standards
6. Defined Roles
7. Communication Rhythm
6. Policies, Systems, & Processes
8. Mottos, Taglines, Mantras, Catchphrases, Rituals, Traditions, Symbols, Stories, Language/Vocabulary, Recognition Programs, Principles

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

@19keys_ Same thing

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

The Value Capture Stack is a strategic framework that describes how economic value is generated, distributed, and ultimately monetized across different layers of an industry. It maps out where profits accrue (e.g., to the infrastructure provider, the aggregator, or the end-user application).

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

The real “right side of the equation”

The right side is not just ownership.

It is:
Ownership of the highest scarce control point.
That is the phrase.

Not just “own something.”

Own the thing that other owners depend on.

That is how someone captures more than the person below them.

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

Profit Pool Migration (or value migration) refers to the shifting of industry profits from one part of a value chain to another. It occurs when technological disruption, changing customer preferences, or regulatory changes cause profit margins to concentrate in new segments, often leaving revenue-heavy segments with compressed margins

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

Control point economics refers to a strategic business model where a company captures maximum value and market power by controlling critical choke points within an industry's value chain.

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

So the full music value-capture stack is this

1. Cultural creator
Creates the thing people want.

2. Rights owner
Turns creation into property.

3. Label/publisher/distributor
Exploits and monetizes the rights.

4. Platform
Controls discovery and consumption.

5. Demand aggregator
Controls audience attention at scale.

6. Ecosystem owner
Controls identity, device, payment, data, and daily habit.

7. Infrastructure owner
Controls the rails everyone depends on.

8. Capital owner
Owns the companies and assets.

9. Capital allocator
Controls where money flows.

10. Rule-maker
Defines what ownership, royalties, contracts, and competition even mean.

[Multihyphenate @The_Polymath22]

A central actor controls key scarce resources, then uses those resources to organize an ecosystem of dependent participants around them, capturing value because everyone needs access to what they control.