Private equity as founder training: Why breaking everything into numbers matters
“And in private equity, you always have to break down everything into some numbers, into a paper, and ultimately, to take a decision to invest.”
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probably also break down everything into into actions. And in private equity, you always have to break down everything into some numbers, into a paper, and ultimately, to take a decision to invest. So I personally think that private equity is an excellent school, and the partners help me also a lot to to grow there.
And if if we rewind to the early days of Upvest, pre product market fit, pre building a team that was, you know, handling a lot of the work you were doing, the sort of grunt work, like, what what were the what were the hardest points? Were there any hard points that you really had to dig deep to get through?
When you start your company,
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Martin Kassing explains how his private equity background trained him to systematically break down decisions into actionable numbers and frameworks. The conversation then shifts to explore the hardest challenges he faced in Upvest's early days before achieving product-market fit.
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Offers valuable insight into how traditional finance experience can be excellent preparation for startup leadership and decision-making.
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