Entrepreneurs & Founders

Section 1: The $17 Million Anomaly: An Initial Valuation In the world of financial analysis, particularly when valuing the architects...

Part I: The Analyst's Fallacy - My Misjudgment of the Reality TV Gold Rush Introduction: The Conventional Wisdom on Reality...

Current Net Worth: As of August 2025, Phil Knight's real-time net worth is estimated at approximately $34.8 billion, primarily tracked...

Part I: The Number on the Shore The story of Phil Robertson, the patriarch of the Duck Dynasty clan, presents...

Introduction: The Analyst's Error—Counting Bricks Instead of Seeing the City For years, my world was one of ledgers and line...

As a financial analyst specializing in brand valuation, I’ve always harbored a deep-seated skepticism toward celebrity-driven enterprises. My models were...

As a young analyst, I was tasked with building a valuation model for the Virgin Group. It was an exercise...

I’ll confess: in late 2020, I was one of them. As a financial analyst trained in the orthodoxy of Graham...

I’ll be honest. A decade ago, if a client had asked me to analyze a celebrity business venture, I would...

Introduction: Valuing a Culinary Entrepreneur The financial standing of celebrity chef, restaurateur, and media personality Aarón Sánchez is most frequently...