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Christopher Fountain

Jun 12, 2026

5:28
Can you dig in for us a little bit on how your experience as a PE-backed CEO shapes how you support founders today? And what do operators maybe misunderstand about that kind of transition?
5:41
Great question, Kent.
5:42
And it's serendipitous that I'm an operating partner today.
5:46
Just over eight years ago, I got a call from a retained search firm for a CEO job at a company where Frontier had just invested.
5:54
And I had met Frontier initially in 2014, late 2014.
5:58
And I really liked the style.
5:59
I liked the people.

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11:28
How does that figure into the scaling of these companies? Is there a playbook that you run, sort of a context that you set with founders?

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