Company-as-Search Fund Manager?

by a searcher from University of California, Berkeley

Jun 19,2022

Hi all - has anyone examined having, rather than a single searcher or two searchers, an entire tech company as a Manager? I see from the Stanford Search Fund Study that there is heavy bias (2x+ more likely) on 5x+ returns to partnerships rather than solo searchers.
Our thesis is that a full company with an engineering team, tested AI, and specific sector expertise could do much better than existing dominant search modes.

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searcher from Standford University

That model already exists my friend. At a larger scale, every publicly traded tech companies have a team that just focuses on finding companies to acquire on the daily basis.
Oracle is one example of that. They acquired more than 40 companies under the umbrella of Oracle.

07/20/2022 | like reply | 0 likes

investor from University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Wow this article is terrible. The ‘ugly’ part of a search fund is that it had to find a debt partner? He’s describing every institutional investor ever…is he used to doing all equity deals? He must only work with SAAS?

07/19/2022 | like reply | 0 likes

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