Skin in the game. An owner’s mindset. There are lots of phrases to describe what makes founder-led companies special, but Oscar Oberg and Tobias Yao prefer to sum it up with one word: obsession.
The fund managers from Wilson Asset Management are the brains behind a new Founders Fund that will exclusively invest in companies where the founder owns a stake of at least 10 per cent or $20 million in equity, and has an active role in the business.