What's Next? Search Fund Entrepreneurs Reflect on Life After Exit

During his time at the Yale School of Management, Matt Dittrich (Yale SOM ’18) became interested in how recent MBA students gathered search funds, structured small acquisitions, propelled themselves into being a CEO, and then participated in a liquidity event only a few years after acquisition and graduation. Dittrich wanted to find out more. He enrolled in MGT 671, Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition, in Spring 2017. He appreciated the case studies about entrepreneurs facing acquisition, strategy, and financing issues. He also spent the summer between his first and second year, working at Trilogy Search Partners (http://trilogy-search.com ), a prolific search fund investment firm in Seattle, Washington. While at Trilogy, Dittrich further immersed himself in the search fund space and absorbed more information about what makes a company a good search fund target and how entrepreneurs successfully transition from searcher to CEO. However, Dittrich believed there was a gap in his knowl