Acquiring Minds
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Episode 55
Season 1
7 Years Later: Leaving Wall Street to Buy Small Businesses
The 3 founders of Chenmark left promising corporate careers to pursue a multi-decade path of acquiring small businesses.
Themes from the interview with James & Palmer Higgins:
- Why the Chenmark founders decided to do this
- Lessons learned from 30+ acquisitions
- How the founding thesis is performing 7 years in
- The value of an "extreme delayed gratification muscle"
- Intellectual stimulation in corporate life vs. small business
- Buying big vs. buying small
- How has competition in search evolved over the last 5 years
- Chenmark’s diversification strategy
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