Holdco
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
My First Million 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
Capital Allocators
3 statements about Holdco, every show
Lyon: Restructurings fail if senior creditors wipe out sponsor and management equity
“You can't take the majority owner of a company and say, you're a zero. I have all the value at the hold co. Have a nice day. Are you going to manage the business? Are you going to show up at every board meeting? You just told the CEO and his team or her team t…”
Girdley: Holding companies protect entrepreneurs by diversifying against cyclicality and business failure
“By having a portfolio of businesses and having a diversified set of things that you built through a holdco, you can avoid some of the risk that normal entrepreneurs have. And that's where one of the strategies and one of the things I like about holdcoing is yo…”
Operational synergies in holding company roll-ups are massively overrated
“Synergies are massively overrated. That like, it's very easy to talk yourself into. We're going to buy these five companies. And then synergy. And it's like, what synergy? It's like we're gonna centralize the back office and we're going to cross promote with e…”