My interview with Nick Haschka from Cub Investments - [TLAO Ep. 5]

My fifth guest of the show is  ^redacted‌, an MIT graduate living in San Francisco focused on buying small private companies through his firm Cub Investments, along with two other partners. Together, they recently purchased a business called The Wright Gardner which provides interior plant leasing and maintenance services to companies in the bay area. One thing that is interesting about Cub's approach is their use of add-on acquisitions to expand the plant leasing business and part of our discussion is on how they view the risk with add-ons versus platform acquisitions, which was very interesting. 

The more I read and learn about the micro PE and permanent capital space, the larger and more diverse it feels. Every investor invests differently and each story is different. Nick is no exception, and in our discussion we cover how his background has influenced his investing, his unique work experience, misconceptions he sees in small company investing, and his disagreements with the concepts of competitive advantage and Porter's Five Forces. 

I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did.

https://www.thinklikeowners.com/podcast/2019/4/2/nick-haschka-cub-investments-tlao-ep-5