Ep.177: Alex Bridgeman (@aebridgeman) is joined by Sieva Kozinsky (@sievakozinsky).

My guest on this episode is Sieva Kozinsky, co-founder of Enduring Ventures, a holding company founded in 2019 with 17 acquisitions to date. Sieva and I met at a dinner following the Berkshire Hathaway meeting in Omaha, his first time attending the meeting. A theme from our first conversations in Omaha that continues through this episode is long-term thinking being a huge advantage, and that compounding happens everywhere. Reputation, lessons, and learning - well beyond capital alone.

We talk about Sieva’s background as a founder and how it impacts his role at Enduring Ventures, how he discovered he is a better buyer than a builder, great companies and founders he’s studied and taken lessons from, and much more. Enjoy!

Listen weekly and follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Breaker, and TuneIn. 

Learn more about Alex and Think Like an Owner at https://tlaopodcast.com/

Links:

Sieva on LinkedIn

Sieva on Twitter

Enduring Ventures

Founders Podcast

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow

The Gambler: How Penniless Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History by William Rempel

Timestamps:

(00:03:53) Belief Documents

(00:08:39) Long-termism trends

(00:11:22) Takeaways from the Berkshire Event

(00:20:02) Helping employees & executives think and behave like an owner

(00:25:44) Being a Buyer vs. Builder

(00:32:36) Culture Index

(00:35:24) The importance of having experience as a founder/operator to succeed at Enduring

(00:44:18) Pareto Prinicples

(00:53:45) Habits, tactics, and learnings from biographies on great founders and companies

(01:08:14) What strongly held belief have you changed your mind on?

(01:09:34) What’s the best business you’ve ever seen?