FOUNDER LED

There are certain conditions and characteristics of founders and their businesses we look for when investing. We share some of them here.

In this episode, Blackwattle's Tim Riordan and Auscap's Will Mumford analyse five founder-led mid-cap stocks.

Barry Lambert founded Count Financial in 1980, bootstrapping the business and running it whilst still juggling a full-time job at CBA. The business that started out as...

I’ve always been a believer that while we all need to live our own life and carve out our own niche, learning from the best goes a long way to helping us reach our...

Not too long ago, we asked two fund managers to name the best management teams in the business. This was in October last year, which now, at least to us, feels like a...

Several months before the pandemic began, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Liaquat Ahamed wrote a piece for The New Yorker with a bold headline aimed at a contentious...

When it comes to founders, it is often the most eccentric that find themselves in the headlines.  By consequence, many of us would be familiar with Elon Musk, Jeff...

With a fierce commitment to legacy comes a natural resistance to giving up control. A big positive of founder-led companies we previously discussed was their tendency...

They say that behind every great business is often an even better management team. We're told to invest in people rather than the business, to find leaders with "skin...

At a recent lunch with another fund manager, I found myself engaged in a discussion about the state of the current market, 'From your perspective, are you seeing many...