Podcast Episodes

Acquiring Minds host Will Smith reflects on 200 episodes, tells the podcast backstory, and teases what's coming in 2024.

Sensing untapped potential, Mark Olivito paid cash for a project-based construction business with less than $100k SDE.

Ben Bryer worked with a financial backer to find & buy a 65-year-old niche manufacturing business without an SBA loan.

Mike Okhravi left a cushy tech career to buy a towing business & a flooring business — and within 30 days of each other.

A fireside chat with veteran searcher & investor Kent Weaver recorded at the Self-Funded Search Conference in Dallas.

Sean Moore looked at a handful of businesses, but a fine art gallery with over $1m SDE won the art collector's heart.

John Hubbard returns to share how "chasing EBITDA over revenue" has benefited the trailer fabricator he bought in 2021.

It CAN be done. Andrew Swiler acquired a SaaS business with $650k SDE using an SBA loan (and while living in Spain).

Chandler Reed reflects on buying a project-based business in 2021, seeing sales soar, then crash, then surge again.

Landon Mance bought a $1.7m tree business alongside a minority partner who's operated the business full-time from Day 1.