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When I was CEO, what I felt like was it was very lonely. It was challenging. It was hard. I was out navigating and trying to find resources, support. People would come before me who could help me in that seat.
Tracy Britt Kuhl is the co-founder of CanBrick, a long-term investment partnership focused on building enduring businesses. She is best known for working directly with Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway, where she served as his financial assistant before becoming CEO of Pampered Chef and serving on the board of several Berkshire companies, including Benjamin Moore and Kraft Heinz.
She combines investor discipline with hands-on operating experience, bringing a rare perspective on what it takes to grow and sustain great companies.
We only invest in one or two companies here. We'll look at 500, so we're really selective at finding the highest quality businesses that have a long runway. I also think a lot of investors haven't actually been operators. And so it's really hard to go into a business and say, this is what you should go do to operate a business if you've never actually operated a business.
When it comes to hiring, what does that process look like? What does that nitty gritty look like in the detail?
We very much subscribe to the who process. So by GH Smart, there's a book called Who, W-H-O. It is, I think, single handedly the best simple book on hiring. And there's a few components to it. And we've augmented and added our own. But the first is building a really in-depth scorecard for the role. And so a good scorecard in our mind has three sort of critical components.
The first is... The second is... And then the third are...
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