Built to Outlast explores the journeys and companies of business builders, with a focus on traditional small to mid-sized business niches in America and the strategies which allow those businesses and builders to endure and flourish. We progress from a surface level of understanding to a deeper level in order to provide knowledge, insight, and learnings that are shared amongst our community. Our episodes focus on personal motivations, journeys, and growth, as well as key drivers of the business model(s), value chain positioning, moat and sources of enduring returns on capital.
Our goal is to build content, tools and a community that supports and empowers what we believe is the backbone of America: business builders and doers, on their journey.
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Built to Outlast explores the journeys and companies of business builders, with a focus on traditional small to mid-sized business niches in America and the strategies which allow those businesses and builders to endure and flourish. We progress from a surface level of understanding to a deeper level in order to provide knowledge, insight, and learnings that are shared amongst our community. Our episodes focus on personal motivations, journeys, and growth, as well as key drivers of the business model(s), value chain positioning, moat and sources of enduring returns on capital.
Our goal is to build content, tools and a community that supports and empowers what we believe is the backbone of America: business builders and doers, on their journey.
Carl Ferenbach – From parachutes to private equity, the beautiful seasons of life
Built to Outlast
59 minutes 49 seconds
1 year ago
Carl Ferenbach – From parachutes to private equity, the beautiful seasons of life
Carl is a co-founder of the well-known private equity firm Berkshire Partners, which currently has over $16B in assets under management. Additionally, Carl is a co-founder of the High Meadows Foundation with his wife Judy, and was the Chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund. Carl shares his journey from watching his father work in the family textiles business, which made parachutes during WWII, to building two organizations from infancy into powerhouses, all with an eye towards collaboration and a commitment to core values.
Leave something for BTO community: Collaboration, and the humility to enable it, has been a key to his success and something that is powerful in aligning teams to achieve success.
Ask something of BTO community: Climate is a significant issue, but will take collaboration and collective action. To make meaningful continued progress, we need to be empathetic to alternatives views and work together towards a solution.
Built to Outlast
Built to Outlast explores the journeys and companies of business builders, with a focus on traditional small to mid-sized business niches in America and the strategies which allow those businesses and builders to endure and flourish. We progress from a surface level of understanding to a deeper level in order to provide knowledge, insight, and learnings that are shared amongst our community. Our episodes focus on personal motivations, journeys, and growth, as well as key drivers of the business model(s), value chain positioning, moat and sources of enduring returns on capital.
Our goal is to build content, tools and a community that supports and empowers what we believe is the backbone of America: business builders and doers, on their journey.
