He Raised $450 Million At 31 With No Prior Experience & Grew It To A Market Cap Of $33 Billion | Research on Urs Wietlisbach
Imagine being in your early 30s, starting a private equity fund and raising $450 million as your first fund.
All this with no prior track record and without your rich father or uncle.
Years later, you own 90 companies, have $152 billion in AUM, your EBITDA is growing at 15% year-over-year, and only Thoma Bravo has outperformed you…
True story, all the way from Switzerland…
1. "Stock and bonds are boring, so we went into private equity."
2. "The concept of thematic research helps us find the best companies with the strongest tailwinds (returns could 6-7 times invested capital)."
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