Hellauer, Samantha Kos, Sanja  Vermoote, Julie and  Wright, B.J. <br/><br/>
How to unlock value in founder-investor partnerships: Take these steps to move from trepidation to trust. 

 - Harvard Business Review  
 - 103(3), May-Jun, 2025: p.128-137 
<br/><br/> Founder-led companies hold immense potential for growth in private equity–backed environments. The psychological DNA of many founder-leaders—characterized by self-reliance, creativity, and deep emotional investment in their businesses—sets them apart from traditional CEOs, whose acquired expertise and pattern-recognition skills are more suited to incremental growth. Given the attractive upside, private equity firms are increasingly doing deals involving founder-led companies: The proportion of such transactions jumped from 54% in 2020 to 62% in 2023, according to PitchBook, with the dollar value of founder-involved deals increasing from 31% to 44%.- Reproduced <br/><br/>https://hbr.org/2025/05/how-to-unlock-value-in-founder-investor-partnerships<br/>