The power of being a majority shareholder.

1 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "The power of being a majority shareholder." The excerpt is an English monologue (single speaker) from October 1, 2023, in which the speaker—likely an investor/founder—discusses the advantages of majority ownership: clearer decision-making, faster implementation, lower emotional management with founders, and expectations of higher profitability and faster growth in majority-held companies versus minority holdings. The speaker also notes an intent to take active control rather than fully exiting founders.

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In some cases, weirdly enough, it's almost less work at majority because I have fewer emotions to manage on the founder side because it's like, listen, I'm the one who's taking all the risk on now. And so this is what we're going to do rather than saying, hey man, I think this is what we should do. What do you think? My speed of implementation on majority companies is so much faster. And this is why it takes years to do this. But like over the next 2 or 3 years, I'd love to show the difference between our minority holdings and our majority holdings of how much more profitable and how much faster we grew them. Yeah. To then make an even more compelling case of like, I don't necessarily want to fully exit founders. That's not my intention. It's more like, we have done this before. Like, let me love you. Like, let me just do what we already know how to do many times.