B. Pagels-Minor: Achieving Real Profit Via Product-Market Fit & The SEC's New Rules, as Explained To 8th Graders - D.F.A., or Please Do... #15:

Plus, a newly-revised whitepaper that will show you how to use A.I., to find LPs!

I was first introduced to B. Pagels-Minor by my friend Matt Bradley, founder/CEO of LetsGlo. B’s career has had a really cool and interesting trajectory since 2021, and their path into the finance world is a bit like mine - B didn’t come from the traditional finance background, but instead, has tons of expertise in the product stack (Netflix), 2 years as an engineering program manager at Apple, and has done lots of really cool board of directors work (YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, Howard Brown Health).

In this newsletter, often, we focus a bit much on investing and not so much on building the great products and highly sustainable businesses that investors dream of building. Today, we’re peeling back the curtain on what really makes great companies tick. It was pleasure to sit down with B. Pagels-Minor and work through some of the toughest concepts in product development, people management, employee retention and more. Read on, and enjoy the insights.