Bill D'Alessandro
@BillDA
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Built & sold 8 DTC/SaaS companies. Pioneered the ecommerce aggregator model. Host the @acquanon podcast. Now acquiring pet brands @ FoodScience/Morgan Stanley.
Charlotte, NC
Joined July 2007
Here's my big personal news:. Natural Dog Company has been acquired by FoodScience, a Morgan Stanley Capital Partners portfolio company!. After 13 years, the journey that started with me quitting my job to go all-in on Elements Brands has officially come to an end. What started
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Holy moly.
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I cannot possibly think of any better marketing for Costco
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How do you vet an intermediary?.
@the_alex_d_ 1) Experience in your industry selling assets like yours.2) References from their past clients.3) the one that most forget - references from their past *buyers*.
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If you are selling an important asset (business, real estate, home, etc) I beg you to hire a competent intermediary. It staggers me how often brokers nearly blow up deals (or cost clients huge $$$) simply by being lazy, amateur, or emotional. Hire a pro. Please.
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2025 is halfway done. If you’re crushing it - time to double down on the momentum. If it hasn’t been a good year, you’ve still got 6 months to turn the ship around. LFG!.
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Do these things really make any difference when it’s 100 degrees out?
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The master plan is in plain sight. Trump/Bessent know they are running loose inflationary fiscal policy, and need to control rates however possible. It’s not about crypto at all - it’s about trying to hold down rates. Get short USD - here comes inflation.
BESSENT: STABLECOIN LEGISLATION COULD BE DONE BY MID-JULY, WILL BE A SOURCE OF DEMAND FOR U.S. TREASURIES.
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Damn I should have gone way, way harder on this thesis.
Using reasonable levels of fixed rate debt to buy cash-flowing or inflation-protected assets (stable businesses, land) is an incredible trade right now. Rock bottom interest rates with high inflation is a true rarity, and the Fed is going to correct it soon. Strike now.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but…. You don’t need to read every issue of every newsletter that hits your inbox.
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Our local school district claims they are "leading the way nationally on AI". And yet - ChatGPT is blocked on their entire network and all school devices. Public schools are cooked.
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ChatGPT didn’t launch until Nov 2022.
AI is coming for every single job. Not just the truck drivers and data analysts. It’s already here. A four year degree won’t protect you. Figuring out how to handle that will be THE social issue of our generation.
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This tweet brought to you by the hundreds of phones taking videos that will never be watched at the concert last night.
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Want to sell your business for a great multiple? Here’s the recipe:. Be profitable. Be growing. Be diversified (customers, channels, products). Hire a good investment banker. That’s it. If you nail the above, you’ll almost always find a buyer willing to overlook anything else.
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