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Susan Pohlmeyer

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Smart Money Rating: 94 out of 100

Co-Founder and Partner, Futaleufu Manager

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Futaleufu Manager
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Co-Founder and Partner
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General partner
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Record updated 4 October 2026

About

Susan started her career on a trading floor in New York City, a strange way to start a life as a search fund investor, except that the work made it clear to Susan that she wanted to work directly with people, not computer screens. That realization eventually led her to Stanford's Graduate School of Business to find her north star. Upon graduation, she decided to follow the path of many early search fund entrepreneurs and become a case writer, and then raise a search fund herself. Detour #1: One of the interviewers for the job was David, who instead pitched her on the idea of working on Stanford’s biennial Search Fund Study, and then working for Futaleufu while she prepared to raise a search fund. Detour #2: David and Susan worked so well together that David then pitched her to become his partner and help him build Futaleufu Partners as a place where search fund entrepreneurs come to find high-impact, old-fashioned mentorship. Today, Susan gets to make her living by coaching entrepreneu

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