I spend a lot of time to evaluate a company’s management team in my investment research process. I’m also often asked by people I meet what I look out for in management. There’s no formula, but I tend to look for company leaders who have a different way of looking at the world.
I think it’ll be useful to share a few great examples from the companies that are in my family’s investment portfolio.
Example 1Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO and co-founder of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). In the company’s IPO prospectus, Zuckerberg wrote these words in a shareholders’ letter:
“Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected.
We think it’s important that everyone who invests in Facebook understands what this mission means to us, how we make decisions and why we do
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