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Jason Hew discusses his journey from reviewing startups to acquiring two manufacturers in a unique transaction.

Send us Fan Mail Jason Hew went from reviewing 1,000 startups a year at Woolworths' venture arm to searching for a business with SMEVentures and buying two instrument transformer manufacturers, one in Sydney and one in Christchurch, in a single transaction. It was only the second search fund acquisition New Zealand had seen. This episode covers his operator-fit framework for knowing when a business is right for you, how he rebuilt a 20-year factory culture as an outsider, and what happened wh...

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