How To Spot a Winning Founder

02/05/25 • 0 min

But what I love is every once in a while you come across that entrepreneur that just says, you know what? I think I'm going to be the exception, but I don't really care. What else am I going to do? Like, I love this, I'm passionate about it. I'm doing it anyway. So it's going to be what it's gonna be. That's the person I want to back, right? Because you just don't know.

And here's the reality as well. What I've come to realize, Josh, I've been you know, I started Zico 20 years ago. Now I have, you know, I think people would look at me and say, I made it right. I, I have a our firm has 500 million under management. Right. We're writing 20 to $30 million checks. I've probably helped raise $1 billion for our firm and other companies. We've had multiple exits. but the reality is, I still am an entrepreneur, right? My partner and I are trying to build a multibillion dollar asset management firm. And so what I was talking to him about recently is it takes what it takes.

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What CEOs of Public Companies Have In Common

Josh Wilson 00:00:00 Having 70 conversations with someone who has taken the company public or been a part of the public market. What's a common thread in terms of character traits or personality that you have seen amongst those different interviews?
Seth Farbman 00:00:13 Yeah, that's actually a great question. Nobody's ever asked me. you know, it really runs the gamut. I mean, there are some there are some CEOs that we work with on the public company side that you'd be fairly surprised to find out that they really want to stay under the radar. Like, they don't want to do posts. They don't want their name out there. not for anything like nefarious. They're just they're just low key guys. They they might be biotech or pharma CEOs that have this phenomenal publicly traded company that we work with on Nasdaq. But the guys like, I just want to talk science. I don't want to I don't want to get my name or my picture out there. He's like, I don't want to be garyvee. I just want to. I just want to, you know, be in the lab.
Seth Farbman 00:00:53 but then you do have others that they're not the science guys, right? They don't know anything about it. But man, can they sell. And can they story tell? and those are the guys that that have the personality. So I don't think that there's one theme, throughout the different types because, you know, from, from our perspective of what we, what we do currently with, with the company I run Vstock. You know, we're we're agnostic means, you know, we can we can work with companies that are doing esports. EV as I said, biotech, pharma. but but they all, they all they all figured it out and they all I guess they all want to take the leap to the grand stage of, of being on Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange. That's the common theme.

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What is a follow-on offering
A follow-on offering is an offering that occurs after a company is already public You've already done your initial public offering and now you want to sell more shares to the public raise more capital for your company So any offering that takes place following an initial public offering and usually follow-on offerings are public offerings as well is referred to as a follow-on offering

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