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Dominic Conti

Location: Downtown Austin, Texas Profession: Entrepreneur, Former Private Equity Professional, Former Air Force Companies: Legacy Safe (Founder), Former PE Software B2B SaaS Connection: Met through Peter Han at a coffee meeting on September 30, 2025

Background​

Dominic is an entrepreneur and former finance professional with a diverse background spanning military service, private equity, and now insurtech. Originally from Southern California with an Italian Catholic family background, he's been in Austin for four years since COVID. He's building Legacy Safe, a retirement planning platform focused on annuities.

Professional Journey​

  • Education: Pepperdine University (Christian conservative school in California)
  • Insurance/Finance: Worked in finance, specifically insurance for 2 years after college
  • Air Force Service: Enlisted, trained in meteorology (weather, astronomy, terrain, physics for military operations)
  • Crypto Trading: Made and lost $1 million in crypto during the 2021 bull run
  • Private Equity: 2.5 years in B2B SaaS private equity as buy-side advisor for Vista, Tomo Bravo, HG, Genstar, FTV
  • Current: Building Legacy Safe - retirement planning platform for retirees using Monte Carlo simulations

Personal Background​

  • Family: From a big Italian Catholic family with three younger sisters
  • Relationships: Single, actively dating but struggling to find a spiritually-aligned partner
  • Residence: Lives downtown Austin
  • Spiritual Mentor: Previously mentored by a big black man from Trinidad (Peter's friend's father)

Faith Journey​

Early Spiritual Experiences​

  • Raised Catholic in traditional Italian Catholic family
  • Radically saved at 16: Received Holy Spirit baptism with fire, started speaking in tongues
  • Early ministry: Brought sisters to faith, laid hands on people for healing
  • Spiritual sensitivity: Always drawn to people discussing both gospel and business success

Military Ministry​

  • Boot Camp Leadership: Led Bible study for 48 men almost every night in Air Force boot camp
  • Pastoral role: Men would wake him at 2 AM crying about personal crises (abortions, suicide attempts, deaths)
  • Five to six salvations during his time leading the boot camp Bible study
  • God-given consistency: Experienced supernatural steadiness to lead 50 men in his unit

Current Faith Perspective​

  • Apostolic movement advocate: Believes church needs apostolic leadership, not just pastoral
  • Anti-institutional: Doesn't attend traditional church, finds them "boring" and ineffective
  • Scott Dufour discipleship: Attends 5-hour sessions with apostle Scott Dufour in San Antonio/Cibolo twice monthly
  • Signs and wonders focus: Seeks "irrefutable, undeniable, unexplainable experience with God"
  • Masculine Christianity: Advocates for strong, offensive faith versus "feministic, weak, empathetic" pastoral paradigm

Key Theological Insights​

  • Rest theology: Learning from Peter Han about Hebrews 4 - "strive to be in my rest"
  • Sonship focus: "The Lord's always been about sonship... sons pick the fathers"
  • Obedience through love: "Love will cause you to be obedient... not beating of your body"
  • Experience over knowledge: "You're supposed to experience God and the Bible supplements your experience"

Business Philosophy​

Legacy Safe Vision​

  • Direct-to-consumer platform: 60-second retirement planning tool using Monte Carlo simulations
  • Annuity focus: Believes annuities are best solution for retirement planning
  • Anti-financial advisor: "I hate financial advisors... they wreck people, they're expensive"
  • Goal: Solve money problem to fund Kingdom work - "indestructible cashflow"
  • $350 billion market: Targeting the massive annuity market and $34 trillion wealth transfer

Trading & Investment Background​

  • Started at 15: Uncle who sold tech company taught him technical analysis
  • Algorithmic trading: Built trading algorithm in Python, converted from Pinescript
  • Crypto experience: Made $1M in altcoins, lost it all including $700K Bitcoin short during Russia-Ukraine
  • Private equity insight: Understands PE playbook - "bid one, one and a half times ROI, drive to 70% EBITDA, let it die"

Relationship with Key Figures​

Peter Han​

  • Met 8 years ago at lunch in San Marco when Peter was in a suit discussing gospel and money
  • Immediate connection: Dominic approached Peter despite looking like "a bum" in slides and shorts
  • Close friendship: Helped Peter move to Austin, stayed at each other's places
  • Spiritual influence: Peter introduced concept of rest and obedience to faith

Scott Dufour​

  • Spiritual father figure: Attends bi-monthly 5-hour apostolic sessions in San Antonio
  • 2.5 years attendance: Has never invited anyone else until Gary
  • Description: "50s, fully tatted up, jacked hardcore dude from Louisiana"
  • Teaching style: "The best articulator of the gospel I've ever heard"
  • Impact: "Radically changed my life... revelation God gives him is unlike anything"

Connection to Gary's Circle​

  • Knows Joe Lamont: Former PE work exposed him to Joe's business model
  • Peter Han connection: Both see Peter as spiritually obedient and disciplined
  • Invited Gary to Scott Dufour session: First person he's invited in 2.5 years

Key Quotes​

On Faith:

  • "When you really wanna help people, I believe this will really help people"
  • "Being an entrepreneur unlocks an aspect of your faith that wasn't there before"
  • "The vibration is almost like to stimulate it... when God gets close to you, you'll naturally react and life will come out"

On Church:

  • "How often do you hear a guy introduce the guy that leads him as an apostle?"
  • "The pastoral paradigm we live in is one out of the other four that exist"
  • "Church was never designed to be 'let me educate you about God'"

On Business & Ministry:

  • "How many guys do you know that are hardcore spirit-filled talking about true ways of God and also business savvy?"
  • "I wanna solve my money problem... so I can go do things God wants me to fund"

On Suffering & Growth:

  • "Most suffering is caused up here... it's just perception of things"
  • "We have a pretty freaking good life out here"
  • "God allows things to play out... then he'll come above it and make it new again"

Future Plans​

Ministry​

  • October 11, 2025: Hosting Gary at Scott Dufour's apostolic session in San Antonio
  • Supporting Scott: Working on strategy to expand Scott's apostolic ministry reach
  • Seeking truth: Continues exploring different denominations and expressions of faith

Business​

  • Legacy Safe growth: Prove concept, dial in marketing, then license to other agencies
  • Team building: Currently has 4 people working under him
  • SaaS expansion: Plans to license platform to insurance agencies and financial advisors

Personal​

  • Marriage desire: Wants "a ton of kids" from a big family background
  • Partner search: Looking for woman open to supernatural faith experiences
  • Faith integration: Using entrepreneurship as vehicle for faith growth

Transcripts​

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