Lui Pangiarella – founder of WayFinder Capital and Second Squared. Both of these companies are active contributors and participants in the search fund ecosystem here in Australia.
Lui co-founded Second Squared a couple of years ago to help build the community of searchers here in Australia. They've just recently founded WayFinder, Australia's first institutional fund focusing on the search fund model.
In this episode of The Next Step Podcast Pete and Lui have covered a whole range of things and discuss a lot of exciting themes that relevant to investors and searchers alike. Lui has a depth and breadth of understanding of search and search fund asset class and as an opportunity for searchers and operators. We delve into a bit more the concept of the fund that he's raising and how that will contribute to the growth of the model here in Australia.
Show Notes:
· 01:32 –Lui talks about what brought him to search and his journey on search.
· 03:08–Pete and Lui talk about what are the attributes of a market that is appropriate to search and what are the fundamentals of the Australian market that lean towards the model of search.
· 07:00 – Pete and Lui talk about how he founded Second Squared and made it a vehicle to run searches in Australia, and talk about the characteristics of searchers in Australia.
· 11:40-Pete and Lui talk about searchers' development and pattern recognition and what are the attributes that makes them a good searcher.
· 16:13-Pete and Lui talk about the Wayfinder and what it means for the market and how it helps the search community.
· 21:55-Pete and Lui talk about the view and reputation of the Australian search to the international community of search fund.
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