The Lowdown #11

👋🏾 Hi friends!

I’m about to have my next batch of Office Hour guests(?) / patients(?) turn up to see if I can help them out with whatever ails them.

I’ve been really blown away by the number of people who have reached out to book some time, and the sort of diversity of problems they’ve come to the table with. I’m looking forward to seeing not only how I can help, but what I can learn 💪 

This week I spoke to Dom and Elliot Chapman, two brothers who seem to have done it all - from sports, to startups to agencies to now their own buy and scale agency roll up strategy via Chapman Capital. We had a candid conversation about burning out, building and exiting an agency and how they manage, as brothers, to present a united front in public, even if they disagree in private. Check it out!

This week there have been a few things that have caught my eye in the tech and venture ecosystem, namely:

❓️ Is PE the new VC?
📈 Pitchbook’s Q3 League Tables
💰️ Are LPs running shy?

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