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Own the Restaurant, Don't Make the Pasta
AI Squared's operating philosophy for every company it acquires.
How it works
- 1Acquire the company, never micromanage operations.
- 2Retain management with three to five year employment agreements.
- 3Equip the existing team with the technology team and let them run.
- 4Stability first, transformation second.
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He Buys Companies, Keeps Every Employee, Then Deploys Nobel-Nominated AIListen to the episodeMore from this episode
The CURA CompaniesTodd's filter for where AI creates the most value: Complex, Urgent, or Administrative businesses.Value Laddering and Behavioral PsychometricsHow AI Squared turns human decision-making into a competitive weapon.Disaggregate the EBITDA DriversThe playbook for where to deploy AI first inside a newly acquired business.The Infinite Elasticity of CapitalismTodd's 600-year rebuttal to the AI jobs panic.Interested and InterestingTodd's two-job rule for staying sharp as a professional.Default to UrgencyThe operating cadence behind AI Squared's speed.
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