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60+ Search Fund Investments: What Industries Excite Him The Most TODAY

A deep-dive on the operator-first path to buying a small business. Told through the lessons of investor-turned-operator Tim Ludwig (60+ portfolio companies; now co-runs Majority Search).

Learn how search funds actually work, which industries to invest in, which searchers to back, why EQ beats IQ in a first-time CEO, and the exact playbook from LOI → close → the first 100 days.

What you’ll learn:

00:00 Intro - buy, run, and compound

02:03 Why study Tim & the origins of search funds

03:40 Tim’s path: from MBA case study to investor

05:18 60+ investments, market gets crowded, lessons learned…

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