Stan Spavold

Strategic Concepts & Mechanics

Signature MoveHelicopter View, Signature Page Only

Cornerstone MoveWire Fifty Million on Trust Alone

Competitive AdvantageAtlantic Canada Thinks Small—Exploit That

Signature MoveTechnology Moat or Nothing

Strategic PatternAspiration Interrogation at Every Meeting

Operating PrincipleForest Thinker Needs a Tree Counter

Risk DoctrinePre-Emptive Divestiture as Political Shield

Capital StrategyTrusts Own Everything, Founder Owns Nothing

Strategic PatternSpeed Kills Bureaucracy in Acquisition

Signature MoveFully Deployed, Never Liquid

Cornerstone MoveBuy the Quota, Chop the Shell

Capital StrategySwinging for Multiples Not Singles

Risk DoctrineWindfall Redeployment Not Windfall Savings

Relationship LeverageGenerosity as Network Currency

Operating PrinciplePromise First, Engineer Later

Cornerstone MoveDinner Conversation to Billion-Dollar Platform

Signature MoveLodges, Jets, and Yachts as Deal Magnets

Signature MoveVisionary at the Helm, Operator at the Wheel

Primary Evidence

"“John’s totally, 100 percent invested in long-term active assets,” CFFI president Stan Spavold explained. “Most of our investments are active, private, and in various stages between startup and mature. But most of them are in the early-stage development.”"

Source:Net Worth - John Risley, Clearwater, and the Building of a Billion-Dollar Empire

"Risley doesn’t fund his investments using only his own money, pulled from some bottomless supply of cash. “We couldn’t grow as fast as we have grown by doing that,” Stan Spavold, CFFI Ventures’s president, explained. Much of Risley’s investing is done with borrowed money, primarily from banks. “We are a net borrower,” Spavold added. “We don’t maintain a pool of liquid assets. We are fully deployed in our investments.” Gains produced by those investments are redeployed into new ventures, continuing the cycle. “We don’t look for investments that are going to return 8, 9, 10 percent a year. We are looking for investments that are going to return a multiple of our investment,” Spavold explained. “We’re not going for singles. We’re looking for doubles, triples, and occasionally a home run.”"

Source:Net Worth - John Risley, Clearwater, and the Building of a Billion-Dollar Empire

Appears In Volumes

Net Worth - John Risley, Clearwater, and the Building of a Billion-Dollar Empire