Premise 1: Access to quality deal flow.

As a well-known author (and micro-influencer?) in the business acquisition space, as well as a private investor for almost 2-decades, I found I was getting a perpetually increasing deal flow of investment opportunities in the private markets with very-promising, above-market returns. This wasn’t just represented in quantity of deals, I found my work had built up a flywheel over the last 18 years and I was getting access to certain quality opportunities no one else was seeing.

I wanted to build passive cash flow and financial independence, which led me to…

I began to work on a framework of reverse engineering the investment practices of Ultra High Net Worth individuals (those over $30 million) and creating frameworks around my ideas and research. This lead to me creating the concept of the Wealth Stack and implementing it in my own investment strategy. I found that after owning a business, accelerating wealth through minority and limited partner investments was a great way to scale and diversify in the private markets—increasing outsized returns all while derisking through a diversified strategy.

I was surprised to learn that scaling wealth via private investments was faster an easier to implement then buying 2-dozen of my own businesses. Leveraging other markets and management teams was a new form of leverage I began to execute at scale myself and have thus far generated an equal amount of wealth via private investing as I have buying my own businesses… and much more passively.

I was gaining interest from hundreds of people (maybe thousands) wondering what businesses I was buying or what investments I was making. I tested this by sharing an investment I was making myself and inviting my audience to invest alongside me if they were interested. I quickly raised millions of dollars and oversubscribed the raise in less than a day. This confirmed that there was interest from my audience to invest alongside me.

The results of that one campaign immediately resulted in me gaining exclusive access to a dozen related deals, and opened additional doors I didn’t exactly see. Other sponsors I was invested in immediately came to me instead of others with their next opportunity. I was able to leverage the hope of a quick raise for either exclusive access and / or significantly better terms for all of us.

In addition, Acquisition Lab is the largest group of vetted, active business acquisition searchers in the world. Unlocking this army of acquisition entrepreneurs could prove very promising for minority investors looking to passively invest, while also allowing Lab members opportunities to acquire and run businesses historically too large to buy alone.

This particularly intriguing opportunity is thus far untapped, but incredibly interesting. 

I can’t imagine anything more fun than an investor group. My career goal is to build cool projects with awesome people and stack cash. If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to go far, go together. By creating a fiercely affordable mastermind of accredited investors it will allow us to have a bigger reach and pool our interests and investments for greater impact, greater access, and better terms. Moreover, I want to help build wealth and passive cash flow for as many people as I can.