Tiny Capital, every mention
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Charlie Munger (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:34 David Rosenthal Yes, a special conversation deserves a special sponsorship, and longtime listeners will know there's only one company in the acquired universe that is truly appropriate because everything they do is modeled after Charlie and Warren, and…
- ▶ 2:48 Ben Gilbert Tiny is the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet.
- ▶ 2:58 David Rosenthal Yeah, so Berkshire, as we know, started as a textile mill in Massachusetts nearly 200 years ago, and almost 20 years ago, tiny founders Andrew Wilkinson and his partner Chris took their version of an internet textile mill, the premier…
- ▶ 3:49 Ben Gilbert So Andrew and Chris took the extra cash flow from Metalab and their other businesses and created Tiny,
- ▶ 4:00 David Rosenthal Yeah, fast forward to today, and thanks to Tiny's success, this opportunity is no longer a secret.
- ▶ 4:18 David Rosenthal We're investors in Tiny ourselves, alongside Bill Ackman and Howard Marks,
- ▶ 4:22 David Rosenthal And just like the two of them, Tiny is really the long-term buyer of choice in their niche.
- ▶ 4:27 David Rosenthal Anyone who's looking for a permanent home for their profitable internet business or who needs a capital partner for a co-founder or VC cap table buyout would be lucky to work with Tiny.
- ▶ 4:38 Ben Gilbert For instance, they just bought the premier social network for film buffs, Letterboxd, which has been the founder's baby for 12 years and will stay so within Tiny.
- ▶ 4:46 Ben Gilbert And this really reflects Tiny's whole ethos.
- ▶ 4:59 David Rosenthal So thanks to Tiny, this is the only sponsor, as Ben said, that you'll hear on this episode.
- ▶ 5:06 David Rosenthal Tiny just became a public company earlier this year, and they can now do deals ranging anywhere from one million all the way up to two hundred and fifty million.
- ▶ 1:05:36 Ben Gilbert With that, listeners, our huge thank you to Tiny for being the sole presenting sponsor of this episode.
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:56:13 David Rosenthal Just a period all year, I think, but especially because we know Jeremy pretty well from Tiny, and, you know, we know Patrick very well, like,
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
- ▶ 39:15 David Rosenthal All right, listeners, for our first sponsor of this episode, we have our good friends at Tiny.
- ▶ 39:21 David Rosenthal Tiny, as you all know by now, is the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet.
- ▶ 39:25 David Rosenthal They have built and acquired the world's premier collection of truly wonderful internet
- ▶ 39:32 David Rosenthal They're like now a public company.
- ▶ 39:34 David Rosenthal They're the OGs.
- ▶ 39:35 David Rosenthal They started 1015 years ago doing this, and now they're doing deals up to a hundred million plus in size.
- ▶ 39:45 Ben Gilbert I mean, back when we started working with Tiny, we always positioned it as, if you have a wonderful small business on the internet that might be doing a couple million in operating profit, things are very different now.
- ▶ 39:54 Ben Gilbert They still love buying those businesses, but they have real scale to be sort of the
- ▶ 40:02 David Rosenthal Yeah, Tiny has always been a great destination for bootstrapped and founder-led businesses, but now they're also at a scale where they can work with venture firms too.
- ▶ 40:12 David Rosenthal So for companies in your portfolio that aren't going to make it to IPO on their own, shoot Tiny an email and that could be a great exit option for your portfolio.
- ▶ 40:21 Ben Gilbert Yeah, and Tiny really is the poster child for durability, long-term thinking, compounding, because the whole thing started just with the profits of their very first business, the design agency MetaLab, and everything since is really just…
- ▶ 40:52 David Rosenthal So if you run a company, are on a board of a company, or know of a company that might make sense for Tiny, just shoot them a note at hi at tiny.com.
- ▶ 41:01 David Rosenthal And when you do, tell them that Ben and David sent you.
- ▶ 41:04 David Rosenthal And also, for those of you who aren't following Tiny founder Andrew Wilkinson on Twitter out there, make sure you give him a follow.
- ▶ 3:20:52 Ben Gilbert With that, listeners, our thanks to Vanta, the best way to become compliant and stay compliant, to Pilot.com, the best way for tech companies to handle tax, bookkeeping, and accounting, and Tiny, truly the buyer of choice for wonderful…
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 57:20 Ben Gilbert And this is a great time to tell you about one of our other favorite companies that is back as a sponsor of season 12 is our good friends at Tiny, the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet.
- ▶ 57:32 Ben Gilbert Tiny, as you know, listeners, has built and acquired the world's premier collection of wonderful internet businesses.
- ▶ 57:38 David Rosenthal And this time and this year is so great for the Berkshire meeting and Tiny because just like Berkshire, Tiny is now a public company.
- ▶ 58:19 Ben Gilbert And so, Tiny has sort of proved at this point that they can do this very well, that they can continue to compound capital, that they can let these businesses grow and run.
- ▶ 58:33 Ben Gilbert The last 15 years, Tiny has just been buying businesses, they've let them run, they empower their own independent managers to run them, oftentimes the founders of the business, but oftentimes
- ▶ 58:51 David Rosenthal And what's great, especially now that Tiny is a bigger scale and now being a public company, they've always historically done this with bootstrapped businesses, which they certainly still do.
- ▶ 59:15 David Rosenthal It was really a, uh, less than ideal situation, but Tiny can now come in and acquire those companies and has been doing that to great effect.
- ▶ 59:39 Ben Gilbert I think you should talk to Tiny.
- ▶ 3:36:35 Ben Gilbert Our thanks to Pilot, Tiny, and Vanta.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:22 David Senra In fact, uh, mutual friends for ours, so the people that set this up for us, or for me, was, uh, Andrew Wilkinson and Chris from Founders of Tiny, who are mutual friends, and, um,
- ▶ 26:27 David Senra Okay, so, I, you know, our mutual friend Jeremy from Formula of Tiny, um, I just spent, like, a bunch of hours with him.