CEO Conversations

Conversations with the leaders shaping tomorrow.

Candid interviews with founders and chief executives across our portfolio, on strategy, capital discipline and the decisions that build enduring companies.

The Latest Conversation

Issue Twelve, on the discipline of patience.

A long-form conversation with Elena Kovac on culture as compounding, and why the balance sheet is a strategy document.

  • Issue 12
  • Founding Stories
  • 22 min read
The compounding you cannot see on a quarterly print, culture, capital discipline, patience, is what separates enduring companies from good ones.
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Conversations, in full.

Every issue since 2019. Filter by theme to trace how our portfolio leaders have thought about capital, risk and endurance across cycles.

CEO Conversations is a quarterly series produced by Emerging Capital. We sit down with founders and chief executives across our portfolio and the wider ecosystem to record their thinking on the decisions that compound over decades, not the ones that make headlines.

The series, at a glance

Cadence
Quarterly, since 2019
Selection
By editorial invitation only
Format
Long-form interview, lightly edited
Sponsorship
None. Ever.
Editorial Principles Four, in order

  1. The sentence, not the soundbite.

    We publish the full thought as it was spoken, lightly edited for clarity.

  2. Decades over quarters.

    We favour thinking that compounds — not the noise of the current cycle.

  3. The founder speaks first.

    The interviewer stays out of the frame; the operator holds the page.

  4. Unsponsored, always.

    Nothing is paid for, syndicated, or made off-record for a fee.