INTRODUCING FACTORY Factory is the Command Center where developers and agentic AI collaborate to understand, plan, and build enterprise software. Our enterprise platform combines advanced engineering system indexing, state-of-the-art retrieval and search, and reliable agentic

Introducing DELPHI ACTIONS Your digital clone can now take automated actions based on user behavior. Just describe what you want in plain language, and boom - our system builds the flows for you.

Always bothered me that you could find real estate by you and never a biz. Fixed it. Bizscout is now shipping new features every single week.

Our first fireside chat Lumos House: The AI Playbook: How to Think, Build, and Scale Like a Top Operator is happening live with Alex Jekowsky , Alexander Seutin & Chris Petkas . Want to learn more or attend other chats? lu.ma/lhaustin

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Great opportunity for builders for the American interest! Congrats jeb !

Congrats Nuvocargo ! One of our early investments at Contrarian Thinking Capital, transforming the way we do cross-border logistics, opening up a major market for SMBs. ✈️🚂🚛🚢

Luke Sophinos GREG ISENBERG Michael Girdley Our strategy is buying traditional service businesses in our holding company AND having a VC fund that owns the tech and AI infrastructure that advances them. Seems to be working. We've been told our VC fund was the top performer on all of Angellist in 2022 vintage. Time will

This is what 1 year at a thesis-driven VC fund looks like: • 5,000 startups looked at • 2,500 pitch decks reviewed • 250 founders met • 16 companies invested in Here’s the formula of our winning founders (& what trends we see in 2025): 1. Pitch deck is clean. TABLE STAKES.

Life is funny. In 2020 we said, you can buy companies bootstrapped. The old guard claimed, “She’s lying!” because we didn’t follow their playbook. Now our people have bought over $300M in businesses. In 2022 we said, “You can make money in SMB tech.” VCs laughed, “That’s dumb,

If you call me ‘buddy’ — I’m calling your wife ‘babe’ next time I see her. Only person that gets to call me buddy is my older brother— just like only person calling your wife babe should be you.

Taking back Main Street!

We tend to agree with Harry Stebbings . Here's a snapshot of a few case studies from Contrarian Thinking Capital Fund I portfolio. A lot more to uncover here in terms of conversion and retention. Let us know if you're building for the future of Main Street. DM's open.

Just wow….

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“Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.” The music world lost a psycho today…a beautiful one. RIP Ozzy

Yearly required reading. It's about how letting go of control can open surprising doors, build resilience, and help you find purpose beyond your plans. Embrace the adventure...I think surrender has led to my most impactful experiences.

The best way to keep a mentor; take their advice and apply it. If it didn’t work, tell them why. If it did, tell them how you made it better.

My mentor is CEO of a $3B+ company you probably haven’t heard of. He hasn’t had an assistant in 32 years. Everyone I know has a VA. Does our generation think we have too much to do, or is it that we don’t know how to prioritize, execute and delegate?