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Sieva Kozinsky

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Enduring Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sieva Kozinsky is the co-founder of Enduring Ventures, a long-term holding company that buys and permanently holds profitable private businesses. Previously, he founded the peer-to-peer college learning marketplace StudySoup and co-founded The MBA Fund.

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The record, in short

What the tape says about how Sieva argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Everything Sieva Kozinsky said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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Kozinsky: Enduring Ventures is designed around a 20-to-40-year horizon
“The next thing we do, let's reverse engineer. What is the last business we would ever want to work on? Right? Like, What is something that we would want to work on for the next 2030 or 40 years, which is really different from our startup experience”
Sieva Kozinsky Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 21:11 Building a Mini Berkshire Hathaway
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Kozinsky: Enduring Ventures will wait 3-6 months before aggressively deploying capital
“Xavier and I, you know, relative to maybe a year ago, we're still investing. We're still looking at opportunities, but we're happy to be patient for another three to six months to see where kind of the world lands, where everything resets and then pick up the …”
Sieva Kozinsky Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 43:02 Building a Mini Berkshire Hathaway
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Kozinsky: Enduring Ventures evaluated a Midwestern scaffolding firm at 4x EBITDA
“And the one we looked at in, in in the Midwest was doing about Four million of EBITDA. We could have bought it at, what was it Xavier? Maybe four times EBITDA at the time?”
Sieva Kozinsky Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 1:01:43 Building a Mini Berkshire Hathaway

The other half of the tape: Sieva Kozinsky's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 10 times in 2 episodes on the Startup Ideas Podcast. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about Sieva Kozinsky, by other people (1)

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Helgeson: First ~$8M raised by Enduring Ventures qualifies as QSBS
“So all of our original investors along with me and Cieva have that treatment in the company. And you do as well as an investor. I think about the first eight million that we raised qualified as QSPS.”
Xavier Helgeson Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 52:53 Building a Mini Berkshire Hathaway

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Appearances (1)

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Building a Mini Berkshire Hathaway Sep 1, 2022 9m
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