Casting the host of Built to Last
How privately owned Jacksonville companies survive the handoff.
advisor.TV is selecting the trusted voice who will lead the conversation.
- 1,000+ conversations
- Since 2014
- Produced in Jacksonville
Real operators. Real conversations. The chair cannot be bought.
Sam Scott, Board Member of Motorola, Bank of New York, and Abbott
2016 · from the advisor.TV archive
Browse the archiveThis seat is for
This seat is being designed for someone who has lived through a leadership transition and can ask the honest question.
- Multigenerational owner or long tenured operator
- Trusted by founders and successors
- Jacksonville private company relationships
- Able to discuss family disagreement plainly
Why Jacksonville
More than half of privately held businesses with employees nationally are owned by people over 55.
Succession is a materially important Jacksonville conversation. We do not estimate the age of local owners, and neither should anyone else. What is certain is the size of the base that will face the question.
The first two conversations
Two episodes to open with.
The founder should step back. Now what?
An owner and successor on the moment leadership begins to move before ownership does.
Family leader or outside operator?
A private company on choosing the person best able to protect the next chapter.
Possible first season
- 01When the founder should step back
- 02Choosing family or outside leadership
- 03Preparing the next generation
- 04Ownership without employment
- 05Surviving family disagreement
- 06Protecting culture through transition
What it costs
The pilot is on us. Mabbly funds the first two episodes. If it is greenlit, a season is $2,500 a month, paid by you or a sponsor.
How we hostHow this works
Two episodes first. The season is earned.
Step 1
Conversation
We talk about the show, the vertical and the people you want in the chair.
Step 2
Two episode pilot
We produce two episodes end to end. The pilot is on us.
Step 3
Greenlight
We decide together after episode two. If the guests you wanted said yes and the conversations were good, the show moves forward.
Step 4
Season
Twelve episodes, two a month, across six months.
Step 5
The season is sponsored
You pay $2,500 a month for the season, or a sponsor does instead. Never both.
Nothing here promises a permanent show. A pilot earns a season, and a season earns the next one.
The conversation compounds
One good conversation produces the next one.
- Owner conversation
- Successor introduction
- Next company
- Permanent archive
You lead the conversation. advisor.TV handles everything else.
- PrepareGuest research, subject preparation and the questions worth asking.
- RecordStudio, cameras, sound and direction in Ponte Vedra.
- PublishEditing, publishing and distribution, then the permanent archive.
1,000+
conversations recorded since 2014. 410 browsable today, the rest being restored from the vault.
- Produced in Chicago, and now in Jacksonville.
- Microsoft sponsored the Chicago era.
- Mabbly is the founding Jacksonville sponsor.
Nobody builds alone.
One show. One trusted voice. Two conversations to begin.
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