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Founder tenure compounds
Long tenure at the top of a company compounds in ways that quarterly thinking can't — relationships, judgement, willingness to wait.
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Founder control
Mechanisms — voting structures, dual-class shares, long tenure — that let a founder keep making long-dated decisions a public market wouldn't otherwise allow.
Long horizon
A patience structure that lets a company or investor make bets whose payoff is years to decades away, when most participants are forced to act on quarters.
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