Weaver: Alpine installs its own leadership team 100% of the time
Graham Weaver · How to break out of autopilot and create the life you want | Graham Weaver (Stanford GSB professor) · Jan 16, 2025 · at 1:09:19
Graham Weaver, founder and CEO of private equity firm Alpine Investors, explains the firm's standard operating model for portfolio company leadership.
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“And we now we put our own leadership team in a hundred percent of the time.”
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