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I write about buying, building, financing, and understanding businesses — with occasional detours into books, curiosity, and the strange lessons learned along the way.
Featured · Making M&A Work
An IPO is only one route to the public markets. The real choice is what you need most: capital, certainty, speed, or control.
August 31, 2026 · 4 min read
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An IPO is only one route to the public markets. The real choice is what you need most: capital, certainty, speed, or control.
August 31, 2026 · 4 min read
Integration
We treated closing day as the starting gun. That cost us more than a year of integration we could have had for free.
August 26, 2026 · 4 min read
Deal Lessons
Spend a week in cannabis and the room splits in two: the people who built the plant and the people who built the spreadsheet. The truth, if there is one, lives in the overlap.
June 14, 2026 · 4 min read
Decision Making
You can't duck every pitch and still hit. The same is true of almost every risk worth taking.
August 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Essays
Knowledge compounds like capital — but only if you keep reinvesting. Curiosity is the reinvestment rate.
June 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Investing
Income is what you're paid for showing up. Wealth is what works while you sleep. Confusing the two is the most expensive mistake in personal finance.
May 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Business
One of the dorkiest things I do is keeping an annual reading log and then summarizing all the books I read at the end of every year.
May 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Investing
William Thorndike's study of eight unconventional CEOs is the best business book ever written about a job most CEOs don't know they have.
May 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Business
Not a best-of list — a list of books that left a permanent dent. Each one rewired something specific about how I read companies, deals, and people.
May 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Joshua Snyder is an investor, operator, and dealmaker. He has built, financed, and acquired businesses across Columbia Care, SPACs, consumer brands like Sunny Seltzers, and family office investing at Squares Capital and Radical Capital. He reads constantly and writes about what works, what doesn't, and what looked better in Excel.
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