Kyle Harrison
concept

Alternative Company Buying

Alternative Company Buying

The theme of acquiring and holding a business to operate and grow it indefinitely, rather than building toward an exit — the SmugMug / Don MacAskill model of an enduring, owner-controlled, customer-centric company that deliberately avoids outside capital. Tagged alongside Small Business in Kyle’s notes on long-term holds.

Where this appears

  • On the Nature of Long-Term Holds — applied to Don MacAskill’s SmugMug philosophy: building an enduring company you control instead of optimizing for an exit.

Entity Ideas capture (Roam)

Raw idea notes from Kyle’s Roam Entity Ideas page (ingested 2026-07-31). Preserved verbatim so the ideation-phase capture survives.

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