Cashflow
topic on 11 shows · 22 statements across 21 episodes
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22 statements about Cashflow, every show
Franceschi: Brex is growing 40% to 50% and borderline cash-flow positive
“You look at where the company is today, you know, the company is growing, you know, 40 to 50%. You know, borderline cashflow positive.”
Morris: Non-Cash-Flowing Deals Require a Direct, Short Path to Profitability
“It doesn't have to cash flow, but you've got to have a real straight line, not like a, you know, change the entitlements in order to make it work. You know, you've got to have like, okay, so I buy the value add, it's underwater. It's not cash flowing. But I ha…”
Newbrook targets two-thirds of investment returns from cash flow
“For us, to Robert's point, we look to have about two thirds of our return to come from cash flow. That is the best risk adjusted way for us to look at these versus a floating rate buyer that might not care about cash flow and might rely on appreciation at the …”
Isenberg: Standard P&L Statements Are Liars That Ignore Startup Cash Survival
“The truth is, your P&L is a liar. It's not really trying to deceive you, but it's written in a language that doesn't really care about your survival.”
Bailey: Property value drops do not matter if cash flow is protected
“If you focus on cashflow, cashflow, cashflow. It doesn't matter if tomorrow your property drops, 10% of value. It doesn't matter because your cashflow is still your cashflow.”
Parrish: Running Out of Cash During Fast Growth Kills Most Startups
“Their promising venture now faced the constraint that kills more startups than any other, running out of cash while running towards success.”
Pompliano: Cash flow optimization creates non-dilutive quarterly funding for balance sheet investments
“By optimizing these businesses for cashflow in a way you're getting non-dilutive fundraising on a quarterly basis. It also allows us to play offensive game of you have a balance sheet. That balance sheet can be used to start companies. We could acquire compani…”
Assaf: Lower volatility produces higher dollar wealth when cash flows occur
“If there's cash flows along the way, I'm going to have more dollars than you will if I compounded with half the vol.”
Sekinger: Leveraging credit for cashflow-producing assets is the fastest way to scale
“That's how you can start and scale quickly is by leveraging your credit to invest in things that are going to produce cashflow.”
Prioritizing growth, EBITDA, and cash flow equally guarantees you get none
“The problem is when you want three things equally, you usually get none. So there are generally in any business at any point in time tends to be some order of priority.”
Maul: Mature private portfolios cannot easily shift without new cash flows
“Because the portfolio was so mature, and Carnegie has no income in cash flows, so once you have a mature private portfolio, it just is what it is. There's not a lot you can do without new cash flows.”
Rare: Billionaires never sell cash-flow assets, holding them indefinitely
“Genuinely wealthy people, like we're talking billionaires, they don't sell their assets. They hold them forever, forever. And so when you look at Bitcoin, you look at any other crypto, you look at real estate holdings, you look at holding companies with other,…”
Greg Isenberg: Founders Should Prioritize Cash Flow Over VC Valuations
“Cash flow over valuation any day of the week. What I mean by that is, who cares if a venture fund is going to say your business is worth a billion dollars? It feels nice. But building cash flowing businesses is ultimately a huge reward from a financial standpo…”
Levie: Deal desk and collections functions are trajectory-defining for cash flow
“There are some of these functions that are so high leverage that if you just nail it you know, the deal desk legal team who's, who's negotiating the contract terms. I mean, these things are like, they literally are trajectory defining in your cashflow.”
Levie: Software firms with 90% retention cannot reach high-margin cash flow
“One has a 90% retention rate or something.
which means that sales and marketing is required forever to refuel the customer base because of the churn rate of that product.
And it means you'll never actually converge on, you'll never actually converge on, on ca…”
Zwillinger: Allbirds will be cash flow and EBITDA profitable in 2025
“What we've said to the market, we've got to be pretty consistent with that on your podcast as well. Is, is that will be cashflow and EBITDA profitable in 20, 25.”
Earnings and EBITDA do not matter without cash generation
“I think the other thing is the focus on earnings, EBITDA, and not the focus on cash. Cash is king. You can have great numbers and great stories, but if you can't produce the cash, it doesn't matter.”
Mauboussin: Cash Flow, Not Accounting Earnings, Drives Business Value
“It's not about earnings that, that matters. It's really about cashflow. So the ultimate driver value of business is cash. Not accounting earnings.”
Monk: Granular cash flow modeling allows pension funds to hold less cash
“We found that if you can really kind of model out those cash flows that we were talking about, cash flows, liquidity, unfunded pacing commitments and all of that you can drive. In fact, there's a UK based pension fund that did this. You can drive these organiz…”
Pinckaers: Odoo generates $500,000 in positive cash flow every month
“We do half a million dollar cash flow positive every month.”
Zani reinvests all company cash flow into growth over regular payouts
“We've done that just because in most of the companies that we've had, we have wanted to take all of our cashflow to invest in growth.”