Part 3  Who will fund projects that end our obsession with growth at all costs.

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Part 3  Who will fund projects that end our obsession with growth at all costs.

17 August 2021 Technology & Digitalization 0

Imagine these two pitches  to investors:

A. We will get to $10m annual revenue with $7m costs and $3m Free Cash Flow. After that growth will be nominal.  At best investors will value that $3m Free Cash Flow at some discount to the US Treasury 30 year return.

B. We will get to $100m annual revenue with $200m costs and losing $100m a year. After that we will go into hypergrowth to get to $500m annual revenue with $300m costs and $200m Free Cash Flow. Investors issue press release about funding the latest unicorn with lots of capital

Now imagine you are one of 8 billion people living on our planet. You want many more A pitches. Capitalism has failed us. What we need is a way to invest in 10 companies of Type A with an aggregate of $100m annual revenue with $70m costs and $30m Free Cash Flow. That is such a simple thing to do yet we do not have it. We have no way to fund sustainable capitalism.

This is why the pandemic killed small business while big business prospered – big business had a much lower cost of capital. Quiz – what would you prefer to invest in:

  1. 100 family owned hairdressers each making $100k annual profit ie $10m net aggregate profit.
  2. A rollup of 100 family owned hairdressers each making $100k annual profit,  making a gross contribution of  $10m less $5m of overhead costs ie $5m net aggregate profit.

Logically the answer is A but lenders and equity investors line up to fund B. Capitalism is failing at the simple task of capital allocation.

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Daily Fintech’s original insight is made available to you for US$143 a year (which equates to $2.75 per week). $2.75 buys you a coffee (maybe), or the cost of a week’s subscription to the global Fintech blog – caffeine for the mind that could be worth $ millions.