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Why Family-Owned Food Firms Are Better Than Tech Startups - Josef Brunner (NutriUnited)
Josef Brunner built and sold multiple tech companies before retiring—only to discover retirement was a terrible mistake. His solution? Enter the fragmented German food industry through succession-starved family businesses, using roll-up mechanics as a tool to build a vertically integrated food champion. What sounds like an unconventional pivot is actually a calculated play on market structure, aging ownership, and the limits of tech-first strategies in traditional industries.
Brunner explains why family-owned food businesses with strong margins and decades of legacy often have no succession…
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