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Matt Allen

@mattallen

Co-CEO

. Chair

. Partner

’s +1. What’s next?

Financial ServicesMelbourne, Australialinktr.ee/mattallenJoined July 2007

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Matt Allen

@mattallen

Jul 13, 2021

The 🚜 is accelerating! Massive thanks to our newest backers and portfolio companies. We’re building a super flexible investment vehicle over here. A strong balance sheet, amazing backers and a team like no other. Building a solid tech company? We’d love to talk.

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Financial Review

@FinancialReview

Jul 13, 2021

It’s been less than seven months since Tractor Ventures launched, but already its done 13 deals and has commenced its second capital raise. bit.ly/36wkdpI

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Wife "what were your plans today?" Me "gotta bale the last paddock of peastraw" Wife "ah good, you can take Son#1 out with you. He needs a day outside without screen time" Meanwhile...in the tractor cab.

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Awesome panel this morning with

, hosted by

. Humbled to work with such incredible partners & excited by the year ahead 🙌

SideStage and 5 others

Got an investment memo instead of a deck. Must say that a well-written investment memo is much better than a deck.

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went to a startup event with

@SidestageVC

(thanks for the invite

@emilyscasey

) in Collingwood, thanks

for the insights. rode a

@LimeScooters_

to my next meeting in south Yarra Melb startup life ✅

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Coffee, croissants and chats with global VCs

Oh man poor Stephen.

Farmbot Monitoring Solutions

@farmbot_tech

Jan 16

Join Farmbot CEO, Andrew Coppin (

@Coppo

), at

@evokeAG

this February as he provides an update on the exciting innovations within the commercial #Agritech sector and shares his wealth of knowledge on emerging technologies. 📅 22 February 2023 at 3:10pm 📍Adelaide Convention Centre

If you're a researcher recently laid off I'd like to help in 2 practical ways: 1. Free

@greatquestionco

account for 12 months (or until you find your next gig) 2. Free ticket to the People Who Do Research conference on Feb 8th It's not a lot but it's a start. DM for details.

Matt Allen

@mattallen

Jan 24

Golf carts …

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Inside Electric Vehicles (inside.com/evs)

@auto

Jan 23

Low-cost tiny electric cars like these could be the next big thing electrek.co/2023/01/23/low

youtu.be/VYJtb2YXae8 Thank god it’s not just me. I’ve switched from using subtitles everywhere and started using headphones “to watch tv” and thought I was just getting old.

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Why we all need subtitles now

It's not you — the dialogue in TV and movies has gotten harder to hear.Subscribe and turn on notifications

so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bs...

Matt Allen

@mattallen

Jan 22

Californian drivers have both: * Zero regard for the speed limit * Absolute regard for the car pool lane I love it. 2000km on the Riv and I will def be buying one. An R1S tho.

You all know that I’m a bit Jekyll and Hyde when it comes to capital. When we do VC, we do it well. If you’re a founder who’s going large, come along!

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Emily Casey

@emilyscasey

Jan 19

Melbs - want to come hang and have coffee with @SidestageVC, an epic founder crew and some top global VCs @IndexVentures & @insightpartners? We're having a little fireside chat ft coffee and croissants next week With 10 spots left You should totes come lu.ma/ssvfireside

It’s happening…

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Terrence Rohan

@tmrohan

Jan 17

Today, there is nearly unlimited VC demand for profitable, high growth, capital efficient companies. The rub is that these companies don’t really want VC funding - or at least not at the terms the VCs think is fair.

Matt Allen

@mattallen

Jan 18

Sunset @ Santa Monica Pier.

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James 'Mr Galileo' Alexander

@jamesfromsydney

Jan 17

So if myself +

@hughstephens

were to chat about our unfiltered views on the latest in tech and early stage VC would you listen? If this gets 100 yes then we’ll do the 1st ep!

Yep!
80.6%
Maybe?
7.5%
Nah..
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67 votesFinal results

Venture Capital is very, very expensive It’s about the most expensive capital out there. It has to be. It didn’t seem like it from late ‘20-early ‘22 But that just turned out to be a head fake

focus on delivering as much value as possible. the money will follow.

The perfect home does exist and it’s the Invisible House on almost 60 acres in Joshua Tree, CA. There’s a 100 foot “HTP solar heated swimming pool” that runs along the west wall that “offers a natural indoor element built for relaxation” and more Currently listed for $18,000,000

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charging network is super slick.

Weeee!!

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About to take its slightly louder, less lux brother for a few laps in the desert. Not sure the

@turo

insurance would cover the R1T on the track. 😂

“The biggest disruptive threat to venture capital is not crowdfunding or Angel List or hedge funds. No. The biggest disruptive threat to venture capital is when the very best founders realize they need very little of it to scale” bryce.vc/post/156625080

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Michael Karnjanaprakorn

@mikekarnj

Jan 11

Lifestyle businesses get a bad rap. Not sure when it got associated with "not being ambitious". • Can work on your own terms AND grow a big company • Can be a small team AND make $100M • Can prioritize both your professional goals AND personal life This is the new path.

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Matt Allen

@mattallen

Jan 12

Update: free fast charging in the thriving metropolis of Barstow 😆 Free charging at the hotel too. Car itself is crazy, accelerates like ⚡️ and is super comfy. UI is better than the Tesla Also, who do I petition for 90mph freeway speed limits in AU? 110km/h is sooo slow.

Our stead for the next 10 days! LA/Vegas/Palm Springs. So far, it’s amazing! //

If your company has been referred to as a boring technology company, but ironically you’re extremely excited by your company actually (boring is a completely subjective term anyway)… @ us anytime A few here that ❤️ boring, as boring can also print money:

tractorventures.com

Portfolio | Tractor Ventures

Tractor Ventures has funded a number of profitable, revenue-generating companies that utilised non-dilutive debt funding, in order to re-invest into their growth engine.

We’re on the hunt for an Analytics Engineer here at EQL! If you’re passionate about EQL’s mission, head to the link to find out more and click that ‘Apply’ button now. We can't wait to hear from you! jobs.lever.co/EQL/859e2454-9

There’s so much bad advice for founders on Twitter framed as “everyone else is doing X”. It ignores the entire premise of forging a path for a new business… which is to do something different that everyone else thinks is crazy. Founders, be your crazy selves. 💙

1/ "Leadership is a repeatable skill, not an art." Over 25 years ago, I attended a leadership session at Netscape, run by Jim Barksdale. It was a single hour that profoundly impacted my career.

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A (welcome?) Sea change. oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/. And the podcast following it up: open.spotify.com/episode/6se9CW How does the higher interest rate affect your business? If you need external capital of any type, listen to this.

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Behind The Memo: Sea Change

Listen to this episode from The Memo by Howard Marks on Spotify. In the latest episode of Behind the Memo, Howard discusses his most recent memo, Sea Change. He explains why the shift we may curren...

Oooh, I know this one! ✋🏻

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Gergely Orosz

@GergelyOrosz

Jan 6

Guess what project is supported by all these companies / startups / vendors.

Show this thread

Picture of "Supported by" and about 50 logos with the likes of Lyft, Spotify, LinkedIn, Slack, Airbnb, GitHub, Microsoft.

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mfs be like I work in M&A bro you are a used company salesman

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Listen up, Silicon Valley… “Hardcore Engineer”

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This. “The market” is no longer people. All algos, fucking with each other on real-time. From 10 years ago… I couldn’t care less about crypto, but this in the real world is having serious impacts.

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Brian Roemmele

@BrianRoemmele

Jan 3

Over a decade ago the polymathic @maxkeiser decoded the financial market in a easy to understand manner. This same video can be used to help understand the recent issues with the crypto markets. 5 minutes worth your time. Brilliantly consistent insights.

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Thread: Each week I’m running a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with just 5 hrs of storage (24 GW / 120 GWh) Results: last week: 100% RE last 71 weeks: 99.0% RE (1/4)