#79: Heaven Lies Beneath the Feet of Mothers

What up BNOS peeps, When all else fails, find heaven under your mother's feet. Our guest Kison Patel hit rock bottom and did just that with his mom - which then propelled him into the world of Subway sandwich franchises, then business brokerage, and finally becoming and M&A pro. Kison slapped us with a bad ass line: "Disrupt yourself or die." Though I personally practice that, I'm not gonna lie: sometimes I rather DIE! This dude Kison disrupts himself errryday - he now runs his own software company that makes M&A deals way more efficient (Founder and CEO of DealRoom & host of the podcast "M&A Science") Kison & I exchanged brown kids war stories - he grew up running motels, I grew up fighting white power crazies at my uncle's gas station. Welcome to America! In the end, we both came out waaay stronger for it. Bottom line: owner's mentality is priceless. We finally broke down M&A - mergers & acquisitions - wtf are they REALLY? Why's xerox buying HP? Why'd Facebook buy IG? Amazon & Zappos?? Kison's looked at all these with intense detail. Tune in to laugh & learn y'all! Peace. - Amer SHOW NOTES 03:58 Passion: Design 10:55 Agile Mergers and Acquisitions 12:50 Finance Rewards Inefficiencies, Corporate Development 15:30 Amazon Buying Companies 19:03 Disrupt Yourself or Die 20:25 Kison Patel 21:33 Growing Up in Nebraska 22:25 Amer Working at a Gas Station 25:32 High School/Immigrant Parents 32:00 Owner's Mentality 38:36 Kison’s Path Into M&A 39:20 Amer's Parents 43:02 Getting Kicked Out of College 44:05 Working at Subway 46:45 Excelling at What You're Doing 51:20 Having a Vision Connect with Amer and BNOS: Visit the BNOS PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/business-news-and-other-%24/id1438358922?mt=2 Visit the Amer Abdullah BLOG: http://amerabdullah.com/ Like BNOS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/businessnewsandothershit Follow BNOS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theamerabdullah Follow BNOS on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theamerabdullah