Compound

Codie Sanchez spent 15 years in traditional finance — asset management, private equity, venture capital, running a division of First Trust to a billion dollars in AUM across Latin America — before deciding she would rather own businesses than advise on them. She started with laundromats, used seller financing before anyone in banking was talking about it, and built a vertical integration from laun...

Sharran Srivatsaa left Goldman Sachs after a client told him: to make what I made on this exit, you'd have to close that deal 100 times. He reverse mortgaged his house, bought a 28-agent real estate brokerage in Beverly Hills, and grew it 10x to over $3 billion in five years before selling to Douglas Elliman. He then took Real from a $200 million valuation to $1.2 billion in 30 months. Now he's pr...

In 2020, Cyril Aboujaoude and his two co-founders were in their mid-twenties, scattered across France, the Middle East, and Tahiti, watching VC valuations detach from any logic. They decided the real opportunity was the opposite: cashflow-positive, niche European manufacturers with succession problems and no obvious buyer. They signed their first term sheet in the spare bedroom of Cyril's parents'...