As foreign investors buy up UK companies such as the technology firm ARM Holdings, we lose the profits and skills Britain so desperately needs
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
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Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough — Brian Balfour
I’ve been lucky to have been part of building, advising, or investing in 40+ tech companies in the past 10 years. Some $100M+ wins. Some, complete losses. Most end up in the middle. One of my main observations is that there are certain companies where growth seems to come easily, like gui
Andy Burnham's crusade against neoliberalism
Unproductive, indebted and internationally uncompetitive, Britain is caught in a savage economic bind
Who secretly owns Britain? Map of hidden UK property owners
Explore an interactive map of nearly 100,000 UK properties owned by offshore companies. In over 40% of cases, the real owner is hidden.
Exclusive | Blackstone to Grant Equity to Most Employees in Future U.S. Buyouts
The private-equity firm’s plan is part of a broader movement in the buyout industry to expand ownership beyond management ranks.
Steve Blank How to Find a Market? Use Jobs-To-Be-Done as the Front End of Customer Discovery
Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of the 21st century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business mo…
The most brilliant move in corporate history?
In a bold departure from its Big Tech peers, Apple sidestepped the $650 billion AI infrastructure spending frenzy, a move likened to opting out of purchasing the US Navy annually. While Amazon, Goo…
Private Equity Is Starting to Share With Workers, Without Taking a Financial Hit (Published 2024)
The buyout giant KKR pioneered a model of granting ownership stakes to employees at portfolio companies. Now it wants the approach to spread.
The Shareholder Supremacy
I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly profitable, or how Meta, Microsoft and Google can
‘Investor Assemblies’ Are the Answer to ESG
Three academics propose “investor assemblies” as a response to the crisis in corporate governance.
Hedge Funds: Even Millennium and Citadel's Losing Traders Are Hot Recruits
With talent in short supply, top firms are looking at rival loss-making portfolio managers as a rare hiring opportunity.
Managed Returns in Employee-Owned Firms
<span>This paper examines the returns of private firms that offer shares to their rank-and-file employees through Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), a type
Company as a Commons
What if excess wealth derived from business couldn't be privatized? Through the levers of steward-ownership, companies can protect their purpose-oriented long term mission from the maligned incentives of absentee stakeholders.
WSJ News Exclusive | Private-Equity Giants Back New Nonprofit Promoting Employee Ownership
More than 60 groups, including banks and pension funds, have also signed on to support Ownership Works, which aims to promote broad-based stock ownership as a means of curbing income inequality.
