Chase and Brian of Commonwealth

Chase and Brian of Commonwealth

Alts por Horacio Ruiz
T1 · E8
12 nov 2021
59:38

Notas del episodio

This week Horacio and Stefan sat down with Chase Chamberlin and Brian Doxtator, CMO and CEO at Commonwealth, which allows anyone to buy shares in world-class racehorses.

In the chat, we discuss:

  • How Rally inspired Brian to think about fractionalized horses

  • What each founder brings to the table (Chase = horses, Brian = business & finance)

  • How horse racing can be intimidating, and how they've worked hard to make everything so easy to understand

  • How they spend their day-to-day (visiting their horses, talking to lawyers, keeping up with SEC regulations)

  • Their bloodstock team, and the difficulty of selecting quality colts

  • How they drive community and make everything feel personal (they have customers from 49 states and 16 countries)

  • How they have aligned incentives by tying their business model to customer success

  • How they think about racehorse valuations (there is tons of public auction data available)

  • What goes into racehorse acquisition costs (horse itself, and 2 years worth of training costs, expenses & legal fees)

  • Unicorn returns aside, what a good return actually looks like in this industry

  • The excitement of watching their horse, Country Grammer, win a close race

  • Where Commonwealth sits in the "investing vs gambling" spectrum

  • What's next for Commonwealth (trading, secondary markets, gamification, and education)

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