Justin Mazeka Vogt is the co-founder and CEO of Evermore Industries, a permanent capital holding company he founded with Ed Redden in 2020
Prior to co-founding Evermore Industries, Justin invested in ~100 transportation and industrial businesses with Bain Capital Credit in Boston, Massachusetts.
Justin holds a Finance degree from the University of Notre Dame as well as an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
(I'm very sorry for my audio. My microphone messed up a few minutes before the podcast.)
On this episode, PrivatEquityGuy & Justin discuss:
- Evermore Industries dream business acquisitions
- lessons learned after 18 months of running a business and setting up a holding company- how and why they don’t think about dividends, and don't care about M&A.
- why everything is around trying to maximize value per share- what Justin is telling to her wife when she wakes up one day and wants Justin to buy her a brand new Porsche
- Frustration = expectations - reality
- Justin step-by-step strategy as a long-term owner
- why when they got started they didn’t look for investors, they were looking for investor-advisors
- how complementary skill sets such as operational expertise vs investing expertise really work together.
- what is the one decision that you can make that makes all of the other decisions easier.
- Justin's “best book” recommendationNo hype. Nothing flashy. Just real stories from a serious investment specialist.
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Evermore Industries invests in high-quality, profitable, growing technology and service and businesses with no intention of ever selling. Based in Austin, Texas, and investing around the United States, Evermore Industries exclusively focuses on businesses with long-term growth potential and large ambitions.
