Collaborative Fund

Inside the private markets: Jacob Hodes on ten-year lockups, the retail push, and what Baltimore teaches you about finding value. Listen on Spotify , a href="https://pod....

Nan Ransohoff (Head of Public Goods at Stripe) recently published a sharp piece on what she calls the third wave of American philanthropy: the tidal change coming as AI wealth becomes liquid and a generation of founders gives it away. It's a generous, cle

Tristan Walker is joining Collaborative Fund as a Partner. In that role, he'll be a voice for the kind of company-building we stand for and a resource for the founders pursuing it. We've long believed that the best people to support founders are other fou

Why we misunderstand odds and why it matters Everyone has a weakness. A blind spot. A vulnerability. For Achilles, it was his heel. Superman had kryptonite. Ted Williams struggled with pitches low and away. But what about the average person? I often think

What defines Collab Holdings future success isn't the capital; it's the stewardship. Few investors understand both the rigor of private equity and the nuance of what makes a brand actually matter to people. Parker Hayden does, and he is joining Collaborat

A few months ago I was in Northern California, visiting a company we've known for years. They make one product. They've made it the same way for decades. Their customers are borderline religious about it. The business is profitable, growing steadily, and

Adam Smith, the 18th century economist, wrote that it's not uncommon to meet a mother in the Scottish highlands "who has born twenty children not to have two alive." That was life. And it hardly mattered whether you were rich or poor. Queen Anne of Englan

Everyone wants to be successful. Successful in our careers, our families, and our communities. I've certainly felt this way, that is until this past fall after attending two events, the first being a speech from someone who is more than a decade younger t

Today, NBC Sports owns the rights to many of sports' "crown jewels," including the Super Bowl, the NBA, the Premier League, Notre Dame Football, and of course, the Olympics. Yet, it hasn't always been this way. In the early 1990s, NBC Sports was in troubl

Things I've been thinking about lately … I broke my back skiing when I was a teenager . It's still screwed up and I occasionally tweak it, leaving me in agony for a few days. When I'm in pain I've noticed: I'm irritable, short-tempered, and impatient. I t