{"id":2961,"date":"2014-09-04T09:25:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:58:36","slug":"business-investments-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/business-investments-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Investments To be Announced as Soon as I Stop Slacking Off in Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"

We closed two more acquisitions on August 8 (will announce them soon) after having made two growth business investments earlier in the summer (Murphy business brokerage<\/a> and one other unannounced). \u00a0When I began the Greybull investment fund, I expected to do 1-2 investments per year. \u00a0This year, I am on 4 with another likely to close this month. \u00a0It has been a crazy summer.\"drive<\/p>\n

Shortly after closing those acquisitions, I hit the road to spend a couple of weeks in Wyoming working remotely and recuperating. \u00a0Much of the road through Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming looked like the photo to the right with no cars in sight in front or in back. \u00a0My trunk was packed with my home office (monitors, scanner, printer, etc.). \u00a0 My supply list was just a little different than the list by Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<\/span>, but the opening paragraphs of that book were in my mind as I drove across Nevada.<\/p>\n

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“The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. \u00a0We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw eterh and two dozen amyls.” \u00a0 From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Along the way, I also drove over the Greybull River at the town of Meeteetse, Wyoming.\"Greybull \u00a0I picked Greybull as the name of my investment fund because it was the small town in Wyoming where I was born and I wanted people to know that I am more of a Main Street guy than a Wall Street guy. \u00a0The Greybull River and the town of Greybull were named after an albino buffalo that the Native Americans said roamed the area.<\/p>\n

Observations on Life and Investments<\/h3>\n

I am heading back to San Francisco this weekend, and the trip was great. \u00a0It made me very grateful and appreciative of all the people that I work with at the Greybull companies. \u00a0A few other observations:<\/p>\n

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  1. The CEO’s and management teams at the Greybull investments are doing a marvelous job. \u00a0Things are going well across the board. \u00a0The hard work is being done at the companies and I can’t claim any credit. \u00a0We are consistently creating value each month that passes, and the compound value of all that work is inspiring. \u00a0I love it and also feel guilty at the same time when I can go for a hike or fishing and know that value is being created at these companies.<\/li>\n
  2. Working remotely is quite easy and effective. \u00a0Most of you know this already, but there really is not much difference, particularly because most of my day is on the phone and online anyway. \u00a0While it has been talked about for years, I can see more and more people able to work effectively from all sorts of locations. \u00a0This week, I spoke with a former leader of Automattic (company behind WordPress and others) who explained how their company is a 100% virtual company with people working all over the world. \u00a0He talked about how “the drama goes down, because everyone is literally in their own little world”. \u00a0The way it worked sounded quite nice.<\/li>\n
  3. Ideas and thoughts spread quickly. \u00a0People in Wyoming are as savvy with modern tools and ideas as anyone. \u00a0It no longer takes a long time for ideas to spread.<\/li>\n
  4. Wyoming is more beautiful than I remembered. \u00a0I was born in Greybull and lived in Cody through the 8th grade. \u00a0I thought it was fine when I lived here, but there are so many beautiful mountains and valleys that it was quite wonderful to be here for an extended period.<\/li>\n
  5. Psyched to also get back to the great San Francisco Bay Area.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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