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Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 1:53:29 David Rosenthal Well, this is the perfect spot to thank our next sponsor of the episode, our very good friends over at Tiny.
- ▶ 1:53:41 David Rosenthal Tiny, as you all know by now, is the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet, and has built and acquired the world's premier collection of truly wonderful internet businesses.
- ▶ 1:53:54 Ben Gilbert And when people refer to them as the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet, it makes sense on two angles.
- ▶ 1:54:09 Ben Gilbert But also, the wonderful internet businesses that Tiny is buying, these companies that are doing, what is about five million in Five million in annual recurring revenue, 30 to 40% operating margins.
- ▶ 1:54:24 Ben Gilbert That's extremely interesting to Tiny and extremely not interesting to Berkshire Hathaway.
- ▶ 1:54:37 Ben Gilbert Rather than saying everything that we normally say about Tiny on this episode, I think we should just sort of leave you with this thing.
- ▶ 1:54:59 Ben Gilbert Just call Tiny.
- ▶ 1:55:41 Ben Gilbert And especially with the IPO markets, and really a lot of the M&A markets being effectively closed right now, Tiny's a great option.
- ▶ 1:55:49 David Rosenthal So email hi at tiny.com.
- ▶ 1:55:51 David Rosenthal Tell them Ben and David sent you.
- ▶ 1:55:53 David Rosenthal They are truly great folks.
- ▶ 1:55:55 David Rosenthal They are a pleasure to do business with, and we can't thank them and vouch for them enough.
- ▶ 1:56:01 Ben Gilbert Thanks, Tiny.
- ▶ 2:20:12 Ben Gilbert Our huge thank you to Vanta, to our good friends at Brex, and to our friends at Tiny.
- ▶ 2:20:28 Ben Gilbert If you have a company that you want to sell to Tiny or you think they should buy that is someone else's company, email them at hi at tiny.com Vanta.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:30:25 Ben Gilbert For our last sponsor this episode, we are thanking our good friends at Tiny.
- ▶ 1:30:29 Ben Gilbert Tiny, as you know, is the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet and has built and acquired the world's premier collection of truly wonderful internet businesses.
- ▶ 1:31:16 David Rosenthal But Tiny Ken.
- ▶ 1:32:01 Ben Gilbert Well, Tiny has realized they can fix this situation for everybody.
- ▶ 1:32:04 Ben Gilbert If you sell the company to them, the VCs can get their money back or whatever the appropriate amount of their money back is.
- ▶ 1:32:10 Ben Gilbert Founders can get to take control back and set up an incentive structure with Tiny that makes sense to keep
- ▶ 1:32:26 Ben Gilbert They've done this with a bunch of businesses already this year, venture-backed companies doing over five million in revenue, 30 to 40% operating margins, or the potential for that to quickly become the case.
- ▶ 1:32:42 David Rosenthal Tiny is happy to own these businesses
- ▶ 1:33:25 Ben Gilbert If it could be a profitable going concern, shoot a note to hi at tiny.com.
- ▶ 1:33:30 Ben Gilbert Tell them Ben and David sent you, and thanks so much to our friends at Tiny.
- ▶ 1:54:29 Ben Gilbert With that, thank you to Fundrise, Pilot, and Tiny.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 1:50:15 David Rosenthal Because we have our next sponsor of the episode, our very good longtime friends over at Tiny.
- ▶ 1:50:50 David Rosenthal So the core business of Tiny is acquiring wonderful internet businesses.
- ▶ 1:51:24 David Rosenthal Companies like Dribbble, Pixel Union, Creative Market, 8020, Girlboss, these are all tiny companies, and...
- ▶ 1:51:35 Ben Gilbert It's different in a sense, but it really is the same tiny playbook that they've always been running to buy wonderful internet businesses.
- ▶ 1:52:33 David Rosenthal And you end up with a lot of these companies in a portfolio that are, like, capable of being Tiny-like businesses, but are not going to provide a big exit that's going to move the needle for the venture portfolio.
- ▶ 1:52:46 David Rosenthal Well, Tiny realized they can provide the perfect solution to this problem
- ▶ 1:52:51 David Rosenthal For the VCs on the boards of these companies, for the founders running these companies, and most importantly for Tiny to then come in, partner with these founders, and own these companies in perpetuity without looking for an exit.
- ▶ 1:53:02 Ben Gilbert So really what Tiny can kind of do is come in, buy the company from the VCs, or a lot of the company from the VCs.
- ▶ 1:53:20 Ben Gilbert They can figure out a structure with Tiny.
- ▶ 1:53:21 David Rosenthal Tiny is very good at figuring out structures that make sense.
- ▶ 1:53:39 David Rosenthal And I'm so glad that Tiny is now doing it and they are the perfect ones to do it.
- ▶ 1:53:50 Ben Gilbert Well, if you are running a business like that, or you are invested in a business like that, or your friend is invested in a business like that, you really should, uh, shoot a note to hi at tiny.com and, uh, just tell them that Ben and…
- ▶ 1:54:10 Ben Gilbert Our thanks to Tiny.
- ▶ 2:14:22 David Rosenthal Tiny.
- ▶ 2:14:23 Jason Calacanis Oh, tiny, of course.
- ▶ 2:16:38 Jason Calacanis Thank you, tiny, for securing the bag.
- ▶ 2:16:40 David Rosenthal Acquire.fm slash tiny.
- ▶ 2:16:46 David Rosenthal Email, uh, is it high at tiny?
- ▶ 2:16:49 Jason Calacanis Whatever it is, like, just know that tiny one.
- ▶ 2:23:24 Ben Gilbert We've got Vanta Brex and our friends over at tiny links for each of those are in the show notes.
Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value · Acquired
- ▶ 44:07 Ben Gilbert Our good friends at Tiny, who share a lot of the same investment philosophies as what we are talking about here with Andrew and Howard.
- ▶ 44:21 Ben Gilbert As long-time listeners know, Tiny is the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet and has built and acquired a collection of truly wonderful internet businesses, most of which they fully own.
- ▶ 45:19 Ben Gilbert And that is exactly what Tiny has gone out and done for the past 15 years with incredible success.
- ▶ 45:32 Ben Gilbert All of these are now tiny businesses run by their own independent managers, just like Brooks Running, for example, within Berkshire, and producing incredible cash flow for Tiny and their managers.
- ▶ 46:36 David Rosenthal So Tiny has realized that they can fix this situation for everybody.
- ▶ 46:41 David Rosenthal Sell the company to them.
- ▶ 46:55 David Rosenthal Tiny has done this with several businesses so far this year.
- ▶ 46:58 David Rosenthal These are venture-backed companies doing over five million in revenue at 30 to 40% operating margins, or the potential for that to quickly be the case, and Tiny came in, acquired the business, the VCs got their money back, and more…
- ▶ 47:14 David Rosenthal And management and Tiny got to run the business as it should be wonderfully and profitably with totally aligned incentives.
- ▶ 47:25 David Rosenthal This function needs to exist in the ecosystem, and I'm so glad Tiny is now doing it.
- ▶ 47:46 Ben Gilbert So if you're running a business like that, or you're a VC board member, and I know there are a lot of you out there, you owe it to yourself and to your portfolio to shoot a note over to hi at tiny.com.
- ▶ 48:09 David Rosenthal I'm so glad tiny is doing it.
- ▶ 48:11 Ben Gilbert Thanks, Tiny.
- ▶ 1:33:30 Ben Gilbert With that, our thank you to Vanta, Tiny, and Brex, and a huge thank you to Andrew and Howard for coming on.
From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:35:21 Ben Gilbert Now, for our next sponsor, we have our good friends at Tiny, and they've got something new to share with us today.
- ▶ 1:35:28 Ben Gilbert As long-time listeners know, Tiny is the Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet and has built and acquired a collection of truly wonderful Internet businesses.
- ▶ 1:36:32 Ben Gilbert And that's exactly what Tiny went out and did over the past 15 years.
- ▶ 1:37:06 David Rosenthal Tiny type companies mistakenly took venture capital instead because it was so easy to get and now have a proverbial monkey on their back looking for an exit.
- ▶ 1:37:18 David Rosenthal Well, Tiny has realized that they're actually in a great position to fix this situation for everybody.
- ▶ 1:37:46 David Rosenthal Well, enter Tiny.
- ▶ 1:37:47 David Rosenthal So Tiny's figured out they are in the perfect position to solve this.
- ▶ 1:37:58 David Rosenthal Tiny has no interest in running your company.
- ▶ 1:38:02 David Rosenthal You go back to running it profitably for the long term, and then together you and Tiny both take big dividends out of it, and they have no interest in actually exiting the business.
- ▶ 1:38:25 David Rosenthal Tiny can come in, acquire a business like that, make the VCs whole and just reset the capital structure.
- ▶ 1:38:47 David Rosenthal Tiny owns the business, but they set up structures that make it fully aligned and worthwhile for you as a management team and employees to stay and continue running the company profitably.
- ▶ 1:39:08 David Rosenthal Uh, or even if you just know a business like this, I think it would be a great fit for Tiny.
- ▶ 1:39:17 Ben Gilbert Our thanks to Tiny.
- ▶ 1:59:12 Ben Gilbert With that, listeners, our thank you to Vanta, Brex, and Tiny.
- ▶ 1:59:17 Ben Gilbert If you are interested in any of these sweet, sweet discounts that they are offering, or to sell your business to Tiny, or explore even what that could look at, the links for all of those things are in the show notes.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:39:45 Ben Gilbert Jeremy over at Tiny and David Perl, who at Capital Camp, recommended the book to me, but it was just awesome.