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Podcast: Think Like an Owner
Episode: David Dodson - Searching, Investing, Teaching - Ep.108
Description: My guest on this episode is David Dodson. David started the second ever search fund after being a Stanford case writer, purchasing Smith Alarm Systems in 1989. Over his career, David has been the CEO or executive chairman of five companies, has and continues to invest in search funds today through his firm Futaleufu Partners, and he is a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching classes about search and the management of small companies. My conversation with David starts with his time as a case writer before launching his search fund. We talk about peaks and...