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Alex Lee – Ekklesia // pm – 26th March 2023
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Chenmark Series 2: Ethos and Incentives - Ep.164
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Please take 2 minutes to complete this audience poll and give feedback on the podcast This episode is the second in a three-part series we are running on Chenmark, a highly successful small business holding company founded in 2015. Today they have acquired 11 operating companies, completed 30+ acquisitions when including add-ons, and have over 600 …
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Alex Lee – Ekklesia // am – 26th March 2023
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Chenmark Series 1: Founding Ideals - Ep.163
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Please take 2 minutes to complete this audience poll and give feedback on the podcast This episode is the first in a three-part series we are running on Chenmark, one of the most well-known and studied holding companies in the entrepreneurship through acquisition world. And for good reason! Since its founding in 2015 they have acquired 11 operating…
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Laura Armstrong – Ekklesia // pm – 19th March 2023
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Andrew Mcgruther – Ekklesia // am – 19th March 2023
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Lars Halvorsen – Ekklesia // pm – 12th March 2023
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Jonno Anrassy – Ekklesia // am – 12th March 2023
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Orlando Remak and Jalen Ross - HOA Management Holding Company - Ep.162
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Please take 2 minutes to complete this audience poll and give feedback on the podcast My guests on this episode are Jalen Ross and Orlando Remak, cofounders of CAM Collective, a holding company for association management companies like HOAs founded in April 2022. Today they have four member companies. I was lucky enough to meet Orlando during a tri…
Please take 2 minutes to complete this audience poll and give feedback on the podcast Daniel Reese is my final guest on the CEO series with early career CEOs. Daniel acquired IntellaTriage in November 2019 after a military career and searching with a distinct thesis. IntellaTriage handles after-hours calls for providers, senior living businesses, a…
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Andrew McGruther – Ekklesia // am – 5th March 2023
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CEO Series Ep.2: Adam Ilowite and Michael Upex - Ep.160
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Please take 2 minutes to complete this audience poll and give feedback on the podcast This episode is the second in our CEO series with early career search CEOs in their companies. Today I’m joined by Adam Ilowite and Michael Upex, CEO and President of Axero Solutions, respectively. Axero is a digital workspace platform for internal communication, …
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Jonno Andrassy – Ekklesia // pm – 26th feb 2023
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My guest, Ryan Galea, is the first guest in a CEO series I’m doing with search CEOs who acquired their companies within the last 3 years and have early lessons and emotions in their very recent, or current, memory. The series aims to learn strategies and hear stories from early career CEOs about how to manage the first couple of years running a new…
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Andrew Mcgruther – Vision Day // 19th feb 2023
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Trilogy Search Series Ep.6: Stijn Hendrikse - Ep.158
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This is the last of a six-episode series with Trilogy Search Partners focused on Search, Search-backed acquisitions, and small business operations. Today we have a great conversation with Stijn Hendrikse, an operating partner at Trilogy. As an author of T2D3.pro, serial entrepreneur, and marketing leader, Stijn has contributed to the success of 10+…
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Bek Wiggins – Prayer // pm – 12th feb 2023
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Tony Peterson – Prayer and Fasting // am – 12th feb 2023
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[Re-Run] Ross Brendel - Investing in Permanent Capital Vehicles - Ep.157
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Today’s episode is a rerun with past guest Ross Brendel, a co-founder and the managing partner of Westerly Group alongside cofounder Rich Littlehale. Westerly Group invests in acquisition entrepreneurs with committed, permanent capital to pursue a specific industry thesis over an indefinite time horizon. They are investors in several of our podcast…
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Jamie Malcolm – In Motion // pm – 5th feb 2023
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Jamie Malcolm – In Motion // am – 5th feb 2023
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Sandy Paige - Managing Teams for Scale - Ep.156
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My guest on this episode is Sandy Paige. Sandy has been an operator several times over his career, including being a general manager at a Maine paper mill, a director of The Jackson Laboratory, and others which gave him a wide range of experience to use in growing the company he acquired as a searcher, Explora BioLabs. He’s also an outlier in being…
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Nick Warren – In Motion // pm – 29nd January 2023
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Andrew McGruther – In Motion // am – 29nd January 2023
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Michael Coscetta - Sales Teams that Perform - Ep.155
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My guest on this episode is Michael Coscetta. Michael has held several high-level sales roles at companies like Square, Compass, his own company, and his current role as CRO of Paxos, and through it all has become an expert in designing and managing sales teams. This was a fantastic conversation about all things sales and building sales teams and i…
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Royal YTH tag team – Summer with Lighthouse // pm – 22nd January 2023
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Andrew McGruther – Summer with Lighthouse // am – 22nd January 2023
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Chris Wiggins – Summer with Lighthouse // pm – 15th January 2023
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Nick Buchanan - Company Data Dashboards at BUCS Analytics - Ep.154
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My guest on this episode is Nick Buchanan. Nick and his father founded a data software business called BUCS Analytics in 2006. BUCS builds deep analytical dashboards for CEOs that pull from internal data sources like ERPs, inventory systems, and more. Long-time customer Trevor Flannigan, COO of the Flint Group, introduced us after hearing about my …
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Matt Hickson – Summer with Lighthouse // PM – 8th January 2023
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Gordon Moore – Summer with Lighthouse // AM – 8th January 2023
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Andrew McGruther – Summer with Lighthouse // PM – 1st January 2023
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Andrew McGruther – Christmas at Lighthouse // AM – 11th December 2022
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Carl Streck - Building a Commercial Real Estate Data and Software Company - Ep.153
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My guest on this episode is Carl Streck, founder and CEO of MountainSeed, a data and software business serving commercial real estate professionals. I was introduced to Carl by Michael Arrieta after asking Michael for the most interesting entrepreneurs in data he knew of, and Carl’s name was the first out of his mouth. Carl started MountainSeed in …
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Sean Joy - CEO Journey within Chenmark - Ep.152
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My guest on this episode is Sean Joy, CEO at Buccaneer Pirate and Southern Star Dolphin Cruise, a company owned by Chenmark in Destin, FL that provides seasonal boat tours. Sean was a part of Chenmark’s GVP, the Generalist Vice President program that provides a career track to becoming a CEO at a Chenmark company. Individuals start by working on a …
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Alex de Pfyffer & Ross Porter - Investing Strategies in Data - Ep.150
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My guests on this episode are Heritage Holding co-founders Alex de Pfyffer and Ross Porter. Heritage acquires companies across industries, but has a special focus on IT services and data centers. I’m a data geek and love talking with entrepreneurs in data, and haven’t talked with much of anyone on the hardware side so this conversation was a lot of…
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Johnny Lieberman & Zack Miller - "Only the Paranoid Survive" - Ep.149
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My guests on this episode are Johnny Lieberman and Zack Miller, who together founded Worklyn Partners to acquire and grow cybersecurity and IT services companies. A concept we talk a lot about in the episode is how the two businesses create a flywheel between each other. I find these flywheels fascinating and I've talked about others such as the fl…
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Richard Reese - Designing Incentives at Iron Mountain - Ep.148
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My guest on this episode is Richard Reese. Richard took over as CEO of Iron Mountain, a physical records management business, in 1981. He ran the business as CEO through going public in 1996 before retiring from the role in 2013. Revenue over that period grew from around $3 million in 1981 to $3 billion in 2013. Our discussion focuses on incentiviz…
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Nick Warren – Christmas at Lighthouse // PM – 4th December 2022
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Tony Peterson – Christmas at Lighthouse // AM – 4th December 2022
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Judd Lorson - Designing a Healthy Mindset as CEO - Ep.147
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My guest on this episode is Judd Lorson. Judd acquired Alliance CAS, a specialty collection agency, in 2018 as CEO and in 2021 resigned from the role after a much more difficult road and path than he’d anticipated. Judd’s story was recently profiled in a Yale paper by A.J. Wasserstein titled “The Judd Lorson Story” which we will link to in the show…
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Renée Parker – Jesus is ___ // PM – 27th November 2022
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Andrew Mcgruther – Jesus is ___ // AM – 27th November 2022
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Luis Reyes - Fire Protection Thesis in Spain - Ep.146
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My guest on this episode is Luis Reyes, managing partner at Iberian Ventures in Spain. Luis worked in strategy consulting before acquiring small companies in Spain in a similar vein as the search fund model through Iberian. We kick off by talking about the buyout market in Spain and what makes it particularly attractive. For example, all private co…
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Chrioni Hickson – Jesus is Peace // PM – 20th November 2022
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Jonno Andrassy – Jesus is ___ // AM – 20th November 2022
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On Revenue Quality with Bradley Roofner and Logan Brown - Ep.145
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My guests on this episode are Bradley Roofner and Logan Brown, who together, along with a third partner Kade Thomas, acquired WLE, a landscaping firm in Austin, Texas, in 2017. After nearly four years of operating, they sold the company to Brightview, a public landscaping company and one of the largest in the country. Our discussion today focuses o…
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My guest on this episode is Josh Schultz, current president CaneKast and previously co-founder of the Chess Group. Josh has partnered with Reg Zeller, a former podcast guest from Episode 81 and CaneKast founder, to acquire and streamline foundries across the country. But as Josh and I talked about in the episode, that is far from their only ambitio…
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Tony Peterson – Jesus is life // PM – 13th November 2022
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