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He Left a Billion-Dollar Family Business to Buy a Fence Company
Brenden Van Buren grew up inside a fifth-generation heavy highway construction business that was just shy of $1 billion in sales. By the time he left, he was running a $50 million project and had been offered a promotion to chief estimator. He turned it down, went to business school with one stated goal, to buy a small business, and joined Carnegie Mellon's first entrepreneurship through acquisition class.
In Part One, Brenden explains how search funds actually work, including the traditional, self-funded, and platform models and how searcher equity gets earned. He makes the case that most…
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