The Ledger

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Girdley expects a 100% success rate across his current portfolio companies
“Working with the companies that I'm already in, you know, I hate to use the word portfolio, but it's the portfolio and I'm working on it and they're growing and they're gonna, I think we're gonna have a hundred percent success right there.”
Michael Girdley Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 49:37 How Holdco Legend Michael Girdley is Playing Multi-Decade Games (and Winning)
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Girdley: My holding company businesses employ roughly 600 people
“So across all the businesses are about 600 people working there.”
Michael Girdley Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 4:39 How to start a Holding Company (full tutorial)
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Girdley: Tiny operates both a holding company and a fund management arm
“Like Tiny, so Andrew Wilkinson's business, like they have their businesses that are owned as a hold co But then they also have a fund management business that they run where they raise money from outsiders to go buy businesses that they then oversee as part of…”
Michael Girdley Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 30:21 How to start a Holding Company (full tutorial)
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