Behind the Ticker
Behind the Ticker
Brad Roth
Founder-Led Companies Beat the S&P by 3-5% | Michael Monaghan
29 minutes Posted Mar 8, 2026 at 5:00 am.
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Michael Monaghan spent 15 years on Wall Street at Goldman Sachs, the Carlyle Group, Sanford Bernstein, and UBS before leaving to build Beartooth, a technology company that let smartphones connect without cell service. That 12-year entrepreneurial journey — and a visit to the Smithsonian where he and his partner were struck by the iconoclastic nature of America's builders — led him to launch the Founders 100 ETF (ticker: FFF), a fund that owns the 100 best publicly traded companies still run b...