A fireside chat with veteran searcher & investor Kent Weaver recorded at the Self-Funded Search Conference in Dallas.
Topics in Kent's interview:
- Kent's history: his search & how he evolved into an investor in searchers
- How the first 2 or 3 years post-acquisition are different in a self-funded search vs. a traditional search fund
- How traditional search feels different today vs. its early days
- What is a "3am business"?
- The power of choosing a quality industry to buy a business in
- The power of high quality revenue
- The power of strong unit economics
- The power of you as CEO
- Ingredients of a good search CEO
- How to handle it if the business you buy fails?
- 2 stories of search failures
- Staying too long in a bad business
- When buying a business, dream bigger. No artificial ceiling.
- Thinking beyond your first deal: what doing a search does for your career
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