About Bare Metal Investments
Objective
We are looking to acquire a great small business to lead into the future. Our recipe for success is simple:
- Acquire a small business via SBA with a foundation of customer excellence & a history of repeated success
- Add value through modernizing digital marketing & tech enabled fulfillment as a core competency
Result: Preserve the legacy of a great business while providing outsized returns to its equity partners
Ethos
Complexity is the enemy. "Bare Metal" is a term in software engineering that encapsulates the fact that the greater the layers of abstraction a program runs from its underlying infrastructure the worse its performance. The closer to "bare metal" the better the clock time. The same is true for business and investments. The more middle men in the equation the worse the results.
About Dan
Dan DePaoli has spent the past 15 years building great products, services, and customer experiences in the technology and real estate industries. Competencies include software engineering, real estate investing, marketing, technical sales, and product management. He has worked on small & mid-sized startups to successful acquisition and implemented ai solutions for fortune 500 companies
Values & Principles
Integrity & Transparency
Trust is one of the most powerful & undervalued forces a human being can cultivate. We live in an era of all-time high distrust in government, educational and corporate institutions. Acting on one's fiduciary duties to customers, employees, and investors stands out.
Excellence & Efficiency
Life is short. The bar for human attention grows ever higher. Anything less than excellent will be ignored. Provide something so good people want to tell their friends about it.
Community & Accountability
Small businesses may not be curing cancer but these humble acts of honest work help sew the fabric of our local community. Work in service to ones community deserves to be celebrated. Every team member represents not only the business but the community at large.
Craftsmanship & Humility
Our modern economy is overrun with decreasing quality and increasing promise. Internet terms like "shrinkflation" and "enshitification" have entered the modern vocabulary. Doing excellent work with no diva behavior is our philosophical approach