Founder, operator & investor. Built, bought, and sold businesses. Now building Rethink Holdings across B2B media, communities, and insights.
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I’m building Rethink Holdings.
We acquire and grow B2B media businesses across communities, content, and insights.
First acquisition done: Rethink Retail.
If you own a business in this space, let’s talk.
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What keeps professionals coming back between events?
At Rethink Retail, peer conversations shape what we publish and which questions we research.
That’s the model we’re acquiring and scaling at Rethink Holdings: Community, Content, and Intelligence.
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Sometimes I feel like we are only moving so we can have a better Zoom background for all the calls my wife and I are on. #WorkFromHome 😭😭
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If a startup asked me 2 yrs back top things they should focus on, my answer was a) Build a great product & b) Sell the crap out it.
I've now added 'Build a great culture everyone is proud of from day 1'. How important do u think focusing on culture is for pre-seed/seed startups?
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Agree so much with this. I was 100% a culprit of this in my first startup. I now always recommend to early-stage startup founders that I invest in or advise to send out monthly updates to your investors groups with the good, the bad and the ugly.
Some founders disappear on bad news & reappear on good news.
Completely natural reaction (who likes to share bad news?) but not a good strategy: not only do you lose credibility but miss out on the opportunity to leverage your investors to help deal w/ the bad news situation.
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Congratulations to my good friend @MarieChevy and my @SamplerBusiness family on the new raise! I love seeing them constantly innovate and grow in the digital sampling space. Can’t wait to see what’s next.
Toronto online product sampling company Sampler sees business soar as in-store sampling comes to a halt /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business…
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My number #2 recommendation to all early-stage founders that are building companies today is to define your company culture early and hold people accountable to it.
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Don’t know why people keep asking for my username every other month. I like it guys, I want to keep it. 🤷🏽♂️
Just putting it out there- @JohnMayer knows how to entertain! Current Mood is one of the best semi-scripted ‘talk’ show on social media and John deserves an Emmy (and a Grammy) for it.
Love this word of wisdom at today's Bridging the Gap: The Current State of Venture Capital & Cloud call - "A term sheet is an idea (at a certain period time), don't take it personally" - @jasonlk
What an incredible and open thread from @stewart on a crazy few weeks at @SlackHQ. We need more leaders from public companies to stand up and provide similar updates.
My day job (also: night job) is CEO of Slack, a publicly traded company with investors to whom I am a fiduciary, 110k+ paying customers of all sizes, and thousands of employees I care about very, very much. The last few weeks have been 🤯😳😢 Here’s what it's been like. [Thread]