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Podcast: The Boardroom Buzz: Grow, Sell, or Exit
Episode: Episode 70 — HBS Search Fund Friends Find 10X in 6 Years
Description: Class is in session. Log this one in your planner as a case study on search funds. Harvard Business School classmates, Jay Davis and Jason Pananos, left their successful careers behind to find search funds, or maybe, search funds found them.
One minor (major) problem. The year is 2008. Armed with patient investors and critical criteria, the determined duo found themselves in pest control, specifically vector control. Their entry with Vector Disease Control International got the search fund party started, but hear how shortly thereafter they made a splash into lake management.
Fourteen acquisitions later, the HBS...