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Kozinsky: Enduring Ventures is designed around a 20-to-40-year horizon

Sieva Kozinsky · Building a Mini Berkshire Hathaway · Sep 1, 2022 · at 21:11

Sieva Kozinsky, co-founder of Enduring Ventures, discusses why he and Xavier Helgeson rejected traditional short-term startup cycles to build a permanent holding company.

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“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”

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