Recent thinking.
Short pieces on the risks founders carry, the structures that address them, and the governance that keeps those structures defensible.
Four pieces, one for each way this work starts.
Deliberately not a blog. Each piece covers one of the situations founders arrive with, and each is written to be useful whether or not you ever speak to us.
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One country, one currency: the exposure most founders never priced
Concentration is easy to see on a balance sheet and hard to feel. Here is what it actually costs, and why the fix is rarely the one people reach for first.
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A B-BBEE ownership deal is an architecture decision with a deadline attached
Treat it as a scorecard problem and you will solve it twice. Treat it as an ownership problem and it can strengthen the balance sheet it was supposed to cost you.
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The structure was right on the day it was signed. Is it defensible in year seven?
Structures do not fail at signature. They drift, and drift is only visible to someone whose job is to look for it.
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What a buyer finds in your ownership structure, and when to fix it
Diligence rarely kills a deal. It repositions one, and almost everything it repositions was fixable eighteen months earlier for a fraction of the price.
None of this is a substitute for a conversation about your own structure.
The pieces above are general. A Founder Wealth Snapshot is the version that takes your actual position into account: short, structured, and free of obligation.