management team

“We have a lot of management teams actually calling us for inbound requests on what can I do to improve my profile and what should I be focusing on?”

“Probably the biggest mistake that I've made in my career is underappreciating how important a good management team is, because if you have a great molecule and it meets a bad management team, you can destroy a tremendous amount of value just by making bad deci…”

“I put things in three basic buckets. Low percentage of the time management that is so stellar. That you think they can take a very marginal product, right? They can sell ice to an Eskimo, and there's drugs like that. And they can find a way to get it across th…”

“And that feeling is a complicated result of charm, beauty, eloquence, all these factors that don't really, in the end, correlate very well to are they a great business person or not.”

“I want to spend an hour, hour and a half with each one of the management team members And I just want to have an honest conversation with them. Just a very basic, candid discussion of, so if this was your money, would you do this deal? Am I doing something int…”

“One of the things that we've done is leaned in and enhanced the management teams of the businesses that we've owned to give them the resources to do some of these things, because it's unrealistic to assume that someone's going to do their day job and all of th…”

“If I'm asking a management team questions, there is this heaviness that exists. You try and break through, but just naturally exists where the management team, okay, here come the private equity folks. The private equity folks walk in like, okay, here's the ma…”