Ep. 153: Blair Garrou, Mercury Fund | Operational Audits, Lean GTM Teams and Liquidity Planning

Podcast: Private Equity Value Creation Podcast · Gordon Cheng

Opublikowano: 2026-10-15

On this episode, Blair Garrou, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Mercury Fund, details the Mercury Method—a post-investment approach that borrows from private equity to lower loss ratios in early-stage venture. Learn how a 100-point operational hygiene audit surfaces the most urgent risks and how fractional executives fill weak functions until they hire their own replacements.Hear how an in-house AI lab supports assessments and AI transitions across the portfolio, why building brand voice with a human first makes agent-written content work and how a $500 million portfolio company runs marketing with three people. Then learn why a formal liquidity program th...