Science Inc.

“We need incredible CEOs and entrepreneurs that are both, you know, young and eager enough to want to jump into starting a new company, but also receiving enough that they'll take constructive feedback and hopefully guidance provided by our team.”

“Their portfolio includes the likes of Medium, Dollar Shave Club, And Dog Vacay, just to name a few, and their leadership is responsible for an astonishing 12 acquisitions and over a billion dollars in exits.”

“Science fundamentally needs to fall into the background. The stars in our building are the CEOs and the teams that run these great operational businesses. And my team and any cultural, you know, thesis that, that science brings to it really needs to be, you kn…”

“Unlike maybe, you know, certain investors or venture groups where they invest in a whole wide variety of different industries, I look for things that we expressly have in, you know, internal information on how to build. So for me, that typically means companie…”

“But when you're launching a, an incubator or a studio that, in essence, holds equity in various degrees of a whole portfolio of different companies, it's a very different entity. So honestly, one of the most challenging parts has been Conveying the strategy an…”

“We also look for businesses where we have, you know, direct connections with the funding groups and in the M&A environment. So I prefer businesses where if they're doing really, really well, I know who to go to get them financed. And I know who to go to when t…”

“You're typically kind of underpaying the market. You've got to have leadership that inspires people that makes the one, you know, that makes the best people want to work with those individuals.”

“We have a 26,000 square foot office. All of our CEOs start in our offices, take a desk, and work with us side by side.”

“If you look at venture, in a lot of ways, they're just kind of judging you inside of 30 minutes, and wow, I have data of thousands of hours with the CEO. In this company, and they're judging it in, in a 30 minute moment, whether it's just, they want to continu…”

“I think it's normal. All the GPs and partnerships of all the firms expect me to be there and are okay with it.”

“We co-build companies for equity. We're not, I don't have a fund. Mike and I, we, Our team, we don't not have a fund. We are an operating company. We're an LLC similar to beta works, but we don't have a fund.”

“At this point, I think I'm at 3000 plus no's. Right. And you know, what counts is the 83 yeses that we've had, and three hundred and fifty million raised against the portfolio, and now, of course, the Dollar Shave Club billion-dollar exit.”

“We originally had set up mines, we had invested in a few companies, and we're kind of long-term holders of crypto.”