Podcast Episodes

Caleb Standafer believed in manufacturing and wanted to spend his career there. A multi-year pivot and ETA got him in.

Ned Tomasevic navigated an early crisis then grew EBITDA to $6m and exited at over 8x, four turns higher than he'd paid.

Dominick Smith left a lucrative track in PE to pursue a path that offered more meaning. Buying a business has delivered.

When the owner refused a seller note in the $6m transaction to sell his business, Tom McCormick had to get creative.

Despite his love of operations, Himmat Singh intended to own his acquisition passively. Then the lead sales guy quit.

When Alan Turkus found a business with a mission, he knew he'd found the right fit for the final chapter of his career.

Brendan Burdette and Ryan Conner have launched personal guarantee insurance to enable more — and stronger — SBA buyers.

Greg Shapiro & Zach Cooper-Vastola are building a long-term, compounding business they see as the anti-PE of the trades.

The first business Joe Wechsler bought had $280k of SDE. Seven years later, he runs a fund with $50m of buying power.

As a South African in the US, Justus Luttig had to get creative to search then buy 2 trades businesses at the same time.