Jon McLaughlin

8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 9, 2025 by Jon McLaughlin · across every show →

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Jun 9, 2025
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McLaughlin: Emberline executes 100% cash-out acquisitions for full founder exits
“The other companies that we acquire were a hundred percent cash out, which is a little bit different.”
Jon McLaughlin Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 7:16 Transforming Legacy Industries through Thematic Investment and AI with Jon McLaughlin
Jun 9, 2025
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McLaughlin: Anyone claiming company culture takes under a year is fabricating it
“Anybody who tells you that culture takes less than a year. Hasn't ever been in a company. They're making that up.”
Jon McLaughlin Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 35:39 Transforming Legacy Industries through Thematic Investment and AI with Jon McLaughlin
Jun 9, 2025 positive
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TBX achieves an over 50% trial-to-paid conversion rate
“For our, for TBX we're in a very fortunate position because 50% of the people who trial, we have a trial to pay over 50% who trial it, buy it. So we have a very high trial to pay conversion.”
Jon McLaughlin Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 33:37 Transforming Legacy Industries through Thematic Investment and AI with Jon McLaughlin
Jun 9, 2025
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McLaughlin: Startups should hire two competing AEs before hiring a CRO
“Then when it comes time to do your first hire, it's really a trick question too. You don't hire one, you hire two. You need to hire two AEs, because, or call it, you know, junior salespeople, or just salespeople with a little bit of experience, because those t…”
Jon McLaughlin Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 32:04 Transforming Legacy Industries through Thematic Investment and AI with Jon McLaughlin
Jun 9, 2025
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McLaughlin: Emberline operates as a hybrid fund with limited partners
“We're a hybrid. We have a fund structure, right? With limited partners in it.”
Jon McLaughlin Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 6:27 Transforming Legacy Industries through Thematic Investment and AI with Jon McLaughlin
Jun 9, 2025
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McLaughlin: Turnarounds Resemble High-Growth Environments in Velocity and Decision-Making
“Turnarounds are a lot like growth and people don't realize this. And it's like, you're making lots of decisions. Things are changing very fast and you have to, and you're trying to rebuild the company. It's different than growth where you sort of have a clean …”
Jon McLaughlin Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 4:40 Transforming Legacy Industries through Thematic Investment and AI with Jon McLaughlin
Jun 9, 2025
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McLaughlin: Emberline mitigates risk through operational processes, not financial options
“We don't hedge it out, or I don't think of hedging it out. Like I would like buying a put, I think it was something like a task or a process. So I spent a lot of time thinking about what could go wrong.”
Jon McLaughlin Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 20:40 Transforming Legacy Industries through Thematic Investment and AI with Jon McLaughlin
Jun 9, 2025 bullish
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Emberline Acquired Hazard Risk Platform Intterra in 2021
“We started Emberline. We raised money and really around the first thematic view was the world is going to burn down. How do we put together the right technologies to mitigate risk? And at the time, what we saw was the world was set up around sort of legacy inc…”
Jon McLaughlin Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 5:29 Transforming Legacy Industries through Thematic Investment and AI with Jon McLaughlin
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