A Bold Bet
A bold bet — one that made me question my own.
Inversion Capital holds a secret that few people in the industry have truly understood:
blockchain rails make any business more effective.
A restaurant.
A telecom operator.
An import–export company.
Behind all of them lie the same needs: track, trace, automate, secure.
And that’s exactly what blockchain does — quietly, rigorously.
It allows companies to grow without becoming bureaucratic.
To add a million customers or a dozen subsidiaries
without rebuilding the entire system.
Scaling becomes native.
How does Inversion do it?
- Buy a solid company
- Create a structural advantage through blockchain — and keep it
- Repeat
It echoes what Warren Buffett did with Berkshire Hathaway —
only this time, on-chain.
This vision is bold. And deeply seductive.
But reality loves playing with perfect plans.
Technology is nothing without true ownership from the teams.
The Other Half of the Bet
By connecting its companies to its own blockchain rails,
Inversion is betting on a network effect:
The more companies join,
the more efficient, secure, and valuable the stack becomes.
Concretely:
Each new portfolio company strengthens the others —
sharing infrastructure pieces, exchange protocols,
and interoperable automations (smart contracts).
What one optimizes, all can benefit from.
A dream — if teams make the tech deeply their own.
No ownership, no transformation.
When people truly own the change, energy rises.
Freed, they innovate without even noticing.
But when change comes from above, people don’t make waves — they comply.
And at 6pm, everyone’s out the door.
The real challenge:
Building an Inversion stack that engineers inside portfolio companies actually want to build with — a source of autonomy, pride, and technical confidence.
(Tiny EBM parenthesis for the initiated:
poor team ownership can artificially inflate Current Value for a while,
but it always eats Ability to Innovate and Time to Market —
until CV collapses too.)
Transforming Without Damaging
Transformations are often imagined as projects:
A deadline.
A perfect plan.
A final deliverable.
Great on paper.
Fragile in reality.
Who can truly predict the future?
The truth — not always comfortable —
is that transformation cannot be imposed.
We grow together.
And that’s the boldness of Inversion’s bet:
changing the engine mid-flight
without throwing customers or employees out the window.
To 10x resilience, teams must own the way they work
the same way they own a tech stack.
No time for slide-deck transformations:
the ones where nothing is clear except the buzzwords,
and exhausted teams endure yet another wave.
So how do we build together?
Leadership defines the impact.
Teams decide how to achieve it.
The Why lives with management.
The How and the What belong to the trenches.
A living dialogue.
Continuous.
Rooted in mutual curiosity.
Everyone in their role.
All aligned toward real, measurable impact for customers.
Transforming — without damaging.
Before We Wrap Up
What’s most impressive at Inversion is that the tech —
even if truly high-level —
is probably not the real challenge.
The real bet is aligning the Inversion stack
with the actual needs of engineers inside portfolio companies,
while supporting them from within.
Transform without damaging.
That may be the real boldness.