The office

Who runs this, how it decides, and who answers for it.

A holding company is a set of judgments made by particular people over a long time. These pages are the record of whose judgments, on what reasoning, and who is accountable when one of them is wrong.


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The Principal

Michael Gord, the principal: track record and the permanent-capital mandate.

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Principles

How this office decides: twenty operating principles on capital, judgment, building, truth and inheritance.

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Ownership

The six ways this office takes a position — build, acquire, standardise, publish, partner — and the one test for giving ownership up.

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Stewardship

One property, one accountable human — and the three seats the parent draws.

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Answers

What a digital holding company is, what Gord Holdings owns, and how the group is structured.

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Ownership and stewardship Ownership Stewardship