Your-Operating-Partner

Seeking AUM | Sharing Investment & Operating Frameworks to acquire SMBs | Trading Unsolicited Life Advice | Principal €3bn M&A firm ~10 years of M&A/PE advisory

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

AMA. Why Follow. Who Am I. Here to Help.

1. WHY FOLLOW
‣ Helping people build wealth through investment & operating frameworks
‣ All about Acquisitions, Post-Merger Integrations, Value Creation, People & Performance.
‣ Curating, creating & sharing the best free resources

2. WHO AM I
‣ Endless energy subject: How To Build Great Companies
‣ ~10 years of M&A, TS & PE Advisory experience
‣ Principal at €2bn M&A firm
‣ Advocate of conscious capitalism
‣ Small Medium Business (SMB) focus
‣ Latent Management Buy-In searcher
‣ Based in Amsterdam

3. HERE TO HELP
‣ I’d love for you to achieve more in the next 3-years than I did in the last 10-years.
‣ Send DM for help or get second opinions as I love to talk about how to build great companies.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

What It Takes (and what you get):

Surprisingly big upside, low effort. Leadership L&D:

1. Clear roles and decision rights
2. Shared strategic priorities
3. A healthy performance culture
4. Trust and collaboration under pressure

Standards? Yes, but are they as high as possible. Don’t underestimate collaborative realignment.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

A duct tape solution solves 80% immediately, but that 20% non-root cause problem will be 100% of your next problem.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

As the biggest current-day misstep is not knowing what to ask...

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

Since intelligence has been commoditized.

Socrates’ Method has regained its learning status which extracts the most value.

As the biggest current-day misstep is not knowing what to ask.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

Great managers Don’t Win By Doing It All.

They win by making others better. By asking the right questions.

The job isn't to be the smartest in the room

It's to turn a group into a force multiplier.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

Wanted

1. the struggle that tests you
2. the resilience that shapes you

Ease never reaches potential. Pressure does.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

@lourencoczernin Totally agree. But I can’t deny that progress is increasingly fast

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

Can you imagine all the wasted effort of the company-wide agile scrum implementation, which have been rendered obsolete

[McKinsey & Company @McKinsey]

Leading companies are moving from two-week sprint cycles to a daily rhythm that combines human judgment with overnight agent execution.

The opportunity now is how organizations use the capacity those agent-enabled workflows create. https://t.co/heERvijLRD

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

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• Most overpay
• Misjudge risk
• Miss hidden value

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[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

KPN: “We’re increasing your phone subscription 1,-/month for better security.”

Me: "shouldn't I be compensated for 1,-/month for years of lacking security?"

The amount of bullshit reasons they'll cite to justify this, is crazzzzyy.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

Challenge Fin. Forecasts during DD

I don’t understand why no PE/investor does this:

1. Get .csv current account file.
2. Match actuals to prior budgeted/forecasted years
3. Retrace cash in/out accuracy in percentages
4. Determine average/normalized level of growth

This beats Percentage of Revenue Method (or LTM surplus/deficit) as working capital

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

Vision Isn’t A Gift

It’s the result of asking the questions no one else thinks to ask.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

@lourencoczernin Absolutely sir! But the hard part is staying focused, being patient, and executing consistently.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

“I have a lot of ideas, and some of them are good ones.”

The only way to know what is good.

Foster constructive dialogue.

Ideas sharpen when they collide.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

Short-term profits at the expense of long-term growth is not discipline. It is pre-sale behavior.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

The cheapest mistake in PE?

Underpaying Leadership

Pay up for the right leader for ‘carefree’ outsized returns.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

@BearLake75 Both, but it doesn't matter how quick the experience came.

What ultimately matters is reaching that level of pattern recognition and decision-making.

But, definitely agree that mastery follows hard work.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

The best operators don’t work 10x harder

They find the 1/10th effort solution no one else saw.

That’s not hustle. That’s experience

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

@kidtsang Couldn't have said it better. I always say "you can't improve what you don't know". If mgmt feels heard, there's trust, then they will bring the right problems to fix through collaboration.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

Smart PE's don't treat month 1 as intervention

1. Listen first
2. Learn the business
3. Experience the day-to-day

That’s how you earn the right to ultimately shape the operating cadence.

[Your-Operating-Partner @Your_Op_Partner]

Unpopular truth: a mediocre business sold into the right window beats a great business sold into the wrong one. Market-sector sentiment is truly a unaccounted force.