Founder-Led Companies Beat the S&P by 3-5% | Michael Monaghan

About this episode

Michael Monaghan discusses his journey from Wall Street to founding Beartooth and launching the Founders 100 ETF.

Michael Monaghan spent 15 years on Wall Street at Goldman Sachs, the Carlyle Group, Sanford Bernstein, and UBS before leaving to build Beartooth, a technology company that let smartphones connect without cell service. That 12-year entrepreneurial journey — and a visit to the Smithsonian where he and his partner were struck by the iconoclastic nature of America's builders — led him to launch the Founders 100 ETF (ticker: FFF), a fund that owns the 100 best publicly traded companies still run b...

People in this episode

Host: Brad Roth

Guest: Michael Monaghan

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• investing
• technology
• founder-led companies
• Wall Street
• publicly traded companies

Keywords

• founder-led companies
• S&P
• ETF
• entrepreneurship
• Wall Street
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Goldman Sachs, Carlyle Group, Sanford Bernstein, UBS, Beartooth, Founders 100 ETF

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