Greg McLaughlin

Big announcement for us today 🚀 blog.laskie.com/blog/laskie-se…

@stephsmithio Do you find baseball interesting? Genuinely curious. I’m 100% biased bc I’ve played my whole life and in college, but the least suspecting (and my favorite) baseball fans I’ve come across in life are past coworkers (typically swes) at startups.

Watching the World Series. ⚾️ Yamamoto is pitching. He’s also the pitcher with the largest contract of all time: $325m across 12 years. This year, he pitched 30 games. That’s… $27m per season $900k per game $100k per inning $10k per pitch Wild.

@theharshith_ Not my client, but I did! Only so much you can do once the LOI is signed… He made out very well nonetheless.

@GregSMcLaughlin You could have helped the Founder.

@Eli_Albrecht Great advice. I’m seeing a huge spike in premarket sell-side QoEs to avoid retrades with PE and strategics. Owners should seriously consider if they’re looking to sell!

M&A Monday: The Art of the Retrade We are seeing a lot of QoEs come back with lower financials or higher net working capital leading to retrades. As a buyer, how you handle a retrade will determine whether your deal dies or can be salvaged. This is extremely sensitive and must be handled with great care. Bookmark this because this issue will arise in the course of business acquisitions. Retrading is difficult and highly sensitive. They can be done, but have to be handled collaboratively and with care. By addressing retrades in these ways, you increase your chance of achieving the right result while maintaining critical goodwill. As always, DM me with any questions. Here are 5 tips to address a retrade:

@joshuamschultz how do you see the role of sell-side advisors evolving in this new environment?

The ETA / Small Business space has been where I've spent the last 15 years. Its been fun and rewarding. Looking at the current landscape, I can't help think its now oversaturated, with good companies largely picked over. I like spaces with less attention and less competition. The current environment is one with - higher rates - more buyers - less sellers (and annoyed at that) Going into ETA or M&A in the SMB space just isn't what it was 10 years ago, let alone 4 years ago. Besides this, I believe many companies will become at best totally rebuilt, at worst obsolete, with the massive release and innovation in AI and Robotics that has largely taken place over the last 3 years. Buying old companies, using old processes, to create old designs or offer old services are not the way of the future (for the most part). I think new entrants to business ownership can get better results building rather than buying right now. The ROI is much higher for most endeavors. Bootstrapped builds vs VC or ETA are the play to build a company based on new customer expectations, global talent, AI, and robotics. For this reason, I am moving from "operating" to "building". There are so many industries to be rebuilt, rethought, and reimplemented, that the opportunity is extremely vast! The ROI on capital and time in re-thinking of existing methods is higher than ever given an approach with AI as infrastructure and AI/Robotics as labor.

@SouthernValue95 @amasad You hadn’t seen the financials, but decided to tweet about the financials, and then rolled back your entire tweet about said financials once the CEO proved you wrong? Got it. Keep doing great work @amasad :)

@amasad Thanks, I hadn’t seen the financials, so it’s impossible for me to be “lying” though it’s quite possible I’m wrong. Mind sharing the proper context as to how Anthropic and OAI can be making more revenue off your V2 than you are, but you can still have positive GMs?

Replit CEO: “companies were subsidizing the cost of AI, paying more money to Anthropic and OpenAI than they were making” Host: “Is that was you were doing?” “Uh… on v1 no, on v2 yes, bc our pricing was (is?) out of whack” (so yes). Conversations abt AI startups “eating the lunch” of established vendors should include the context that some of these hot startups w/ eye popping revenue ramps are just giving compute credits away at a discount… obviously that can lead to a lot of revenue growth. Obviously it isn’t sustainable. Remember MoviePass?

@lifeof_scoop That’s awesome man, good work. Been following since you started this 💪

It's official. I've crossed a million dollars in ad sales for my local newsletter It's nowhere near where I know I can reach, but it feels good Especially when everyone told me I've never sell any ads to small business owners

@johnnywrestling DM me!

What firms come to mind that can do a $150MM + deal in Residential Services. I may or may not have something for you :) Don’t say Alpine or Morgan Stanley

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@ScottyTidwell The Ritz is on my list. Watched Tiger & Charlie play there back in December. Shooting you a DM with my number!

@GregSMcLaughlin ya 100% orlando - i'm playing at the ritz on friday but i have a full group otherwise i would invite you to that one lol

@ScottyTidwell Let’s lock it in! There’s gotta be some gems in between us. Possibly Orlando?

@GregSMcLaughlin we should meet half way one day and play some

@themattwetmore This is a cooler story about the AA Airpass theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

@GregSMcLaughlin Okay so maybe it's a terrible idea

Airlines should come up with a Netflix or Hulu subscription model. Pay monthly for unlimited flights.

@DriscollEllis Forever? Wow. What are the gas fees associated with getting my tweets on chain? Are you raising? I’m in.

@GregSMcLaughlin But did you know that, for just $50 per tweet, you can put them on the Ethereum blockchain forever? While Twitter is considering an edit button, Web3 is building intergenerational assets. We are not the same.

@DriscollEllis 1. How dare you bring this format to Twitter 2. I’m actually surprised no one does this here

You could, if you wanted, say the same thing about drama and excessive line breaks on Linkedin. But guess what? No one, and I mean no one, would see it. Unless... you typed it like this. Btw the dog was the interviewer.

@DriscollEllis Yes 👍 I read the whole thing Ellis 🙀☠️ To riveting of a tweet to stop reading 🛑📈🚀 Thank you for wasting 10 seconds of my life 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

Don't like when people tweet with emojis after every line? 😾 Well too bad, because it works 🤷‍♂️ But don't worry, it'll stop when it stops working 👍 Which means it won't stop ❌😩 Because it'll never stop working ✅😤 You're still reading, aren't you? 😏📈🚀💰

@ChrisJBakke I fixed the typo for them:

Back in my day we used to call this a homeless shelter

@pelnike remember, he's just trying to "elevate the world's consciousness"

@GregSMcLaughlin Apparently one is a much better salesman

New client signed the contract after 5pm on a pre-holiday Friday. Who said we're in a recession?

When DTC Brands text you more than your friends do 🫠🫠🫠