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Buyers and Builders — 179 episodes

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1

How to Scale a Services Business Like a Tech Company | Sam Allsopp Interview

2

The Roll-Up Playbook: From Zero to $100M Revenue | Felix Jander Interview

3

The Anti-Private Equity Playbook: Buy Great Businesses and Don’t Change Them | Justin Escajeda

4

Masters of Private Equity: Warren Hellman, Tully Friedman and Joseph Rice

5

How Two First-Time CEOs Bought a $5M EBITDA Business | Greg Geronemus Interview

6

Inside a Public 14-Acquisition Compounder | Eric Tan and Patrick Grove

7

Why Buy-and-Build Is One of the Best Investment Opportunities | Frederik Brandis Interview

8

Search Funds, Buy-and-Builds & the Future of ETA | Greg Geronemus Interview

9

How to Build a Roll-Up to 8-Figure Revenue | Nathan Lindley Interview

10

13 Acquisitions and Why Permanent Capital Beats Private Equity | Chris Rolls of PieLab Capital

11

A $6.5M Estimate in 23 Minutes: How AI Is Rewiring SMBs | David Flickinger Interview

12

90+ Acquisitions, 30% Revenue CAGR, 35% Book Value Growth | Brett Kelly Interview

13

How We Bought 14 Businesses and Built a $120M HoldCo | Andrea Allegrini of Lindbergh

14

How We Bought 160 Businesses and Built a $1.5B HoldCo at 33 and 35 | Ramsey Sahyoun of Evergreen

15

35+ Acquisitions, $1.3B Exit and Backing 80+ Searchers | Mark Sinatra of ETA Equity

16

What 137 Acquisitions Taught Me About Operational Excellence | Robert Irving Interview

17

Buying Three Founder-Led SMEs: Lessons from the Trenches | Simon Plummer Interview

18

The Buffett-Munger Introduction That Changed Everything

19

From Management Buyout to Fund of Funds | P. V. Ramanathan (Ram) Interview

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9 Add-Ons in 24 Months | Dan Lifshits of Dwelly Interview

21

How We Built IDUN Industrier: 20 Acquisitions and 60x+ P/E Ratio

22

What 100+ Investments Taught Me About Great Acquirers | Lacey Wismer Interview

23

A Serial Acquirer Masterclass and The Story Of 47 Acquisitions Per Year

24

38 Acquisitions Generating $2 Billion in Revenue | Eric Wiklendt Interview

25

How I Left PE and Bought 16 Companies | Kaido Veske Interview

26

10 Acquisitions in 24 Months, No Fund | Travis Jamison Interview

27

Why This Operator Won’t Raise a Fund (17 Companies, 9 Exits) | Vic Keller

28

Off-Market Deal Flow for $2M-$200M Founder-Led Companies

29

5 Acquisitions in 24 Months: How I Got 60-70% Seller Financing | Millen Rastogi Interview

30

How I Left PE to Buy Three Businesses in 90 Days | Reza Jafer Interview

31

The Story of Bowles, Hollowell, Conner & Co

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30 Add-Ons in 48 Months | Luis Reyes of IBV

33

Search Fund Success Story: From $15M to $200M Through 7 Acquisitions

34

A $25 million LOI with a Ferrari 488

35

The Real Playbook Behind an Operator-Led Roll-Up (10 Acquisitions in 18 Months)

36

Why aren’t more $2-10M EBITDA companies hiring a CIO?

37

From Near Collapse to $100M+ Exit: A Story of 8 Smart Acquisitions

38

The Playbook Behind 605+ Acquisitions | Justin Ishbia research

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How I Bought 5 Businesses After Failing My First Acquisition

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How Smart Buyers Create Alpha Without Cheap Debt

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The Playbook for 50-200% Annual Company Growth

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I didn't join PE to be an operator

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There Is No Path — How Elite Investors Actually Build Their Lives, Careers, and Companies

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How I Quit My 6-Figure Job and Bought 9 Companies

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How These Firms Turn $5M-15M Companies Into 100x Returns

46

From VC to Main Street: How AI Is Rewiring Service Businesses

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How to Find 10x MOIC, 30%+ IRR Deals (Step-by-Step)

48

20 Acquisitions, 500 Investors, Zero Fund (The Private Equity Strategy No One Is Talking About)

49

How I Retired at 30 as a Family Office Investor (Here Are the Investments I've Made)

50

Buy 5 Companies as Fast as You Can (1-on-1 Advice From Fredrik Karlsson That Changed Everything)

51

Ian Rickwood on AI, Private Equity, Car Wash & Real Estate Investing | Henley Group

52

How to Win Deals Over Private Equity (Even if They Pay 10-20% More)

53

The Private Equity Bubble? | Inside a Private Equity Firm Built for What Comes Next

54

The One System That Scaled from $3.5M to a 15-Company Portfolio (Sid Jashnani)

55

7 Acquisitions Done — Buying Businesses on “Easy Mode” in 2025 (here’s why)

56

How to Build a 7-Figure Company from Scratch (with Mac Lackey)

57

How Builders Build Wealth That Lasts (and Mistakes to Avoid)

58

4 Portfolio Companies and The Gritty Playbook of Value Investing | Reggie Pryor Jr.

59

How They Turned $8 Million into $450 Million (by Following THIS #1 SIMPLE Habit)

60

How to Build Proprietary Deal Flow? (15 Off-Market Acquisitions)

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Lessons from 100+ Acquisitions You Can Implement TODAY | Joe Liemandt

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How We Bought 27+ Businesses and Built a $1 Billion HoldCo at 39 | Steve Carroll Interview

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How I Completed 12+ Acquisitions and Still Built a New Roll-Up

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How to Raise $450 Million at 31 with No Track Record (and Do 90+ Deals) | Urs Wietlisbach Research

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9 Figure Exit How I Built and Sold to Private Equity (Alexis Sikorsky Interview)

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He Bought 4 Small Businesses with ZERO Finance Experience (Nikolai Dimitrov Interview)

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I Raised $11.7M To Back 13 Self-Funded Searchers | Grant Hensel Interview

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60+ Search Fund Investments: What Industries Excite Him The Most TODAY

69

How I Left PE, Bought 2 SaaS Businesses (Raising a Fund Next?) | Donza Worden Interview

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This 70/30 Model Leads to Highest Returns

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How I Bought 7 Businesses and Built a $34M Holding Company | Doug Lepisto Interview

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How to Build a $30M HVAC HoldCo (4 Acquisitions and Next Goal $150M)

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Buying 500+ Businesses and Turning $100k Into $10B - Fernando De Leon of Leon Capital Group

74

How I Bought 20+ Small Farms and Built a $350M HoldCo in My 30s | Jack McCarthy Interview

75

This Is the Best $1M EBITDA Business (A Lesson From Talking to 2,000 Business Owners)

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We closed 7 deals in 14 months (first $140m and a portfolio of 13 companies)

77

Larry Gagosian Makes $1B+ a Year Brokering Off-Market Art (While Still Owning 100% Of The Business)

78

The Next Andrew Wilkinson? Building a 6-Company HoldCo (Bootstrapped with a 7-Figure Exit)

79

How Michael Ovitz and Steve Schwarzman From BlackStone Find 10s

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How I Bought 4 Companies After Raising Millions from 35 Investors | Danny Vivier Interview

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Follow This Private Equity Model and You'll Win (They Turned a $25K Loan Into a $15B AUM Fund)

82

How to Build a $200M HVAC HoldCo Without Outside Capital (2 Acquisitions and Organic Growth)

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This Model Beats Private Equity Returns (30-50%+ IRR)

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How to Do 10+ Deals per Year ($8M in Revenue and $2.5M in EBITDA) | Jack Bennett

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How I Left Investment Banking to Build a Search Fund (Luca Hany from Amboro Capital)

86

How The Chainsmokers Built a $200M AUM Fund (Using 7 Proven Operating Principles)

87

How I Bought 3 Paving Companies in 11 Months ($66M in Revenue and $7M in EBITDA) | Sam Mahmood

88

The Next Warren Buffett? Turning $2.7m Into $650m by Buying 30+ Businesses

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How I Bought 7 Small Businesses and Had One Exit That Returned a 35x MOIC | Dev Shah Interview

90

How I Left BlackRock to Build 3 Companies (Then Sold Two in 5 Years) | Jamal Muse Interview

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40% CAGR for Over 15 Years: UK’s Most Profitable Roll-Up?

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How I Left Real Estate PE, Bought 6 Companies and Sold To A Strategic Buyer In 23 Months

93

How To Raise $159M, Acquire 6 YouTube Channels and Sell To Blackstone For $3B in 3.5 Years

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How They Invest in 6-8 Boring, Owner-Operated Businesses Each Month | Judd Goodrich interview

95

How Plumbing and HVAC Investors Turned $500K Into $6 Billion Exit

96

How To Partner with 20 Operators ($100m in Sales) | Neil Twa Interview

97

Rollup of the Decade? Two Private Equity Firms, One Boring Business, and a 10-Figure Payday

98

How I Bought 30+ Businesses and Built a $195M HoldCo in My 30s | Chris Sparling Interview

99

How I Built a $12M HoldCo Through Chaos, Grit, and Two Acquisitions | Mark Rossano Interview

100

How Elite Investors Stay Sharp For 30+ Years (Yet Many Overlook It)

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How We Left PE, Bought a $5M Business and Scaled To $21M in 2 Years (M&A and Organic) | Johannes Hock Interview

102

What Holdco Investors Can Learn from Neil Mehta (Never Outsource DD!)

103

How I'm Building a $50M EBITDA Holdco Of Boring Businesses | Nick Huber Interview

104

How I Bought 4 Competitors and 200x'd My Company ($1M -> $210M in 5 Years) | Nick Keegan Interview

105

Why Networks are Your MOAT and Competitive Edge (And How to Build Them?) | Alix Pasquet's Triad Strategy

106

How We Bought 15 Companies Worth $270M in Just 24 Months | Yuen Yung Interview

107

How We Bought 35 Businesses and Built a $700M HoldCo | Jesper Søgaard Interview

108

The Ultimate HoldCo Model: Turning Advisory into Long-Term Equity in Wonderful Businesses | Matthew Mathison Interview

109

My First 5 Acquisitions and How I'm Building a $20m EBITDA SaaS HoldCo | Pascal Levy-Garboua Interview

110

How a Youtuber Built an 8-Fig Holdco of 6 Businesses | Arie Scherson Interview

111

30+ Acquisitions And Counting – The Hidden Genius of Jeremy Giffon

112

How This Young Man Bought a $10M Business with Just $40K – Secrets from a $400M Lender | Bruce Marks Interview

113

How 4 Swedish Serial Acquirers Scaled To a 49x P/E Ratio | Niklas Sävås Interview

114

How I Bought 4 Companies and Built a One-Man HoldCo Doing $20M in Revenue | Dustin Carreon Interview

115

How I Built a 14-Unit Zaxby's Franchise Doing $50M in Revenue | Ben Little Interview

116

How We Bought 6 Businesses and Built a $80M Long Term HoldCo | Ryan Sullivan Interview

117

How We Bought 10 Businesses and Turned $20K Into a $200M HoldCo | Roman Khan Interview

118

How I Built and Sold a $16M Company to Invest In Search Funds | Christopher Hillier Interview

119

How I Bought 2 Businesses With Little Of My Own Money And No Investors | Santino DeFranco Interview

120

How We Bought 14 Businesses and Built a $30M HoldCo in 6 Years | Joe Van Deman and Colin King Interview

121

How I Raised Money (from 44 Investors) and Bought a 40-Year-Old 8-Fig Manufacturing Business | Jason Andrew Interview

122

How We Bought 25+ Businesses and Built a $600M HoldCo at 34 and 33 | Iryna and Sameer Interview

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How I Bought 35+ Businesses and Built a $240M HoldCo At 38 | Andrew Wilkinson Interview

124

How I Started, Bought and Sold 6 Service Businesses (In $500k to $3M EBITDA Range) | Robert Lombardi Interview

125

How I Built a 7-Figure Swim School HoldCo With 30-35% Margins | Josh Scott Interview

126

How I'm Building a $15M EBITDA B2B Micro-SaaS Holdco | Kjael Skaalerud Interview

127

This Grocery Store HoldCo Opened 32 New Stores in 90 Days | Research Episode on Tomasz Biernacki of Dino Polska

128

How I Left Goldman Sachs and Turned $25k Into an $11M Live Lobster Business | Alex Schultz Interview

129

How To Buy 5 Businesses and Build a $60m Holdco (No Investors) | Dan Tamkin Interview

130

Letter to a Friend Who May Start a New Investment Firm | Graham Duncan research

131

How I Built and Sold a $31m Financial Media HoldCo | James Camp Interview

132

How I Bought 8 Companies and Built a $200M HoldCo (100% Bootstrapped) | Jesse Tinsley Interview

133

How I Bought Two Traditional Businesses with $4m EBITDA at 24 | Ethan Macdonald Interview

134

How I Built a Portfolio of 6 SaaS Businesses With 170+ Employees | Philippe Willi Interview

135

How I Bought 12 Small Business in 18 Months (Revenue $13M) | Jeremy Harbour Interview

136

How We Bought 26 Companies and Make $116M in Profit PER YEAR; Interview with CEO and CFO of Röko

137

Hard Pivot? Reflections After Buying 3 B2B SaaS Businesses | Colin Keeley Interview

138

How I Bought 10 Companies in 18 Months Using $0 of My Own Money ($7.5M EBITDA and 50% Carry) | Nigell Lee Interview

139

How I Built a 5-Company HoldCo with a Next Goal to Generate $100M in Revenue | Nikolas Hulewsky Interview

140

How I Invested in 40+ Companies and Built a $1.9B AUM Investment Firm | John Caple Interview

141

From $6.5M to $84M: The Journey of Building A 9-Fig Holding Company | Chris Rolls Research

142

How I Bought 10 Companies and Built a $200M Portfolio in My 30s | Eugen B. Russ Interview

143

Growth Equity And $500M To $700M Worth Of Deals Per Year | Kashyap Chanchani Interview

144

Holding Company For Internet Businesses, 150 People And Personal Branding | Daniel Priestley Interview

145

How I Built a Businesses Portfolio Which Does $1B in Revenue | Eran Efrat Interview

146

How I Bought 24 Companies And Here's Everything I Learned Looking At 1000s | Xavier Helgesen Interview

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He Raised $450 Million At 31 With No Prior Experience & Grew It To A Market Cap Of $33 Billion | Research on Urs Wietlisbach

148

How I Bought 4 Small Businesses And Grew Them An Average By 65% In The First Year | Chase Murdock Interview

149

Annualized Returns of 35%, $115m AUM and 7 Investment Traits To Such Success By Mark Sellers

150

How I Bought 3 Companies And Built $20M Industrial Portfolio in 3.5 Years | Jules Brenner Interview

151

How I Make $14M Net Profit Per Year With a Team Of 16 People | Matt Paulson Interview

152

How He Built $500M Revenue and $100M EBITDA HoldCo in 5 Years (Röko CEO Fredrik Karlsson RESEARCH)

153

How I Acquired 8 Companies By Age Of 32 While Traveling To 20 Countries | Lee Betts Interview

154

My Top 16 Lessons On Actively Looking For Exeptional $2-10 Million Revenue Companies (Pre-Acquisition)

155

How To Grow ANY Traditional $2-$10M Niche Business 50-200% Annually?

156

How This Private Equity Fund Achieved An IRR of 72% After Doing 586 Deals

157

How I Bought 12 Service Companies (Without Investors) | Nick Haschka Interview

158

How I Bought Real Estate Which Makes Me $1.7 Million Per Year | Ben Wolff Interview

159

How I Bought 8 Traditional Businesses and Built a $127M Portfolio | Rafael Quinn Interview

160

How I Left Goldman Sachs To Start a $1B+ Company | Michael Cassau Interview

161

How I Buy Machinery, Make Millions in Net Profit and Work 3-4 Hours a Week | Ujwal Velagapudi Interview

162

How I Acquired 4 Companies and Built $30M Portfolio in 4 Years | Mathias Calonius Interview

163

How I Built My Own Investment Fund Advisory Firm After Leaving a Global Law Firm | Michael Huseby Interview

164

How I Built Two Banks to $1 Billion in Total Assets | Andy Schornack Interview

165

How I Built Companies That Make More Than $100M | Val Katayev interview

166

How I Acquired a Large Company Right After Stanford MBA | Justin Mazeka Vogt Interview

167

How I Invest My Millions I Earned From High-Stakes Poker | Alec Torelli Interview

168

How I Mastered LBOs (Leveraged Buyouts) and Built 8-Fig Holding Company | Sacha Jak Interview

169

How I Built a Business Portfolio of $150M AUM | Sunny Desai Interview

170

How I Built a Portfolio of 4 Wine Distribution Companies | Ranjit Chahal Interview

171

Mr. X - 22 lessons from an anonymous investor whose last investment was $30M in a company with $170M in revenue

172

How I Bought 18 Companies and Built A Holding Company That Does $140M in Revenue | Michael Byars Interview

173

How to Buy Internet Companies and Take it to IPO in 9 Years | Dom Wells Interview

174

How I Built a $10M HoldCo of 6 Internet Businesses (100% Bootstrapped) | Greg Isenberg Interview

175

How to Get Insanely Lucky When Raising Capital | Daniel Pi Interview

176

How To Buy ATM Machines and Build a $10M EBITDA Business | Mitchell Sorkin Interview

177

How I Built a Luxury Property Holding Company That Pays $31,000 a Night | Michael Chen Interview

178

How I Acquire HVAC Companies to Build a $45 Million Portfolio | Amir Haboosheh Interview

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How I Semi-Retired at 28 as a Family Office Investor | Akshay Ramachandran Interview