Sam Restagno

Family man, entrepreneur, investor. And to keep myself sane in the above pursuits; philosophy nerd and below average (but enthusiastic) athlete.

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

Makes sense for businesses that already have real systems in place. The processes are baked in (it's how they got to scale in the first place), so the marginal gain from AI is harder to capture.

At the smaller end of the lower middle market, we've seen the opposite, largely because there are so few systems to begin with. Going straight from manual, paper-based processes to AI-enabled ones has been a game-changer for a lot of our teams.

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@BigJohn043 Congrats, John! Looks like a nice business

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@PEoperator We like “if you had a magic wand, what would you fix / change tomorrow about your business”. That usually reveals some real pain points and areas where you can create value if you can crack them.

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@BigJohn043 Interesting perspective, John. When fundraising in Canada (where we originally launched), a lot of the “maybes” were polite “no’s”, whereas in the US “maybe” more often meant “we’re considering it”. The fast “no” is far more common in the US which is a great release of time.

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@PrivatEquityGuy Same can be said for marriage! I’ve been very fortunate to work with someone that I trust implicitly, but not without my share of false starts. Without sour, sweet has no context.

Big fan of your content, btw!

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@paulswaney3 Looks thorough! Thanks for sharing!

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@BojanRadojici10 Pls send! Interested to take a look

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@paulswaney3 Interested!

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@paulswaney3 INTEGRATION

[John Caple @BigJohn043]

@RobertMSterling @ClintFiore @SMB_Attorney @KHendersonCo @Lawyer4Deals Thanks for the shout out!

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@SullyCNBC Had a 24 Series III Obsidian for 2 weeks. Within first couple of days, cruise control became disabled because of a sensor issue, heavy body creaking in turns. Brought it back to dealer. Beautiful interior, but hadn’t seemed to have worked out all of the kinks.

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@TarunAmasa @OpenAI Early access please

[John Caple @BigJohn043]

@FunlessSponsor I have a ton of experience in this industry....

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@tferriss I’d give it an 8. It’s great to get a shell together when used appropriately with ChatGPT or other model. It’s not at the “click and send” stage yet but saves time on flow, layout and some graphics.

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@judd_goodrich 6x for a platform is very different than 6x for an add-on where the bought down multiple is closer to 3-4x…

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@ClintFiore Great initiative, Clint - looking forward to seeing what you have in the pipeline when this is launched.

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@girdley @HireWithNear @girdley how’s the talent pool in the financial analyst vertical? Specifically, financial modeling and synthesis rather than controller work.

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@RBReich Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, Tiger Woods, Wayne Huizenga, Michael Dell, Stephen Schwarzman … that required about 15 seconds of thought to come up with 6 examples that don’t fall into your cynical categories. Relentless pursuit, calculated risk, skill and some luck.

[Sam Restagno @srestagn]

@moseskagan I’m sure plenty of folks on X would be happy to help expand that circle (us included), but I respect the disciplined approach!