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Buyers and Builders

PrivateEquityGuy

The Buyers and Builders podcast with PrivateEquityGuy is a place where you can find meaningful conversations about holding companies, buying and building businesses, entrepreneurship, investing, and more. Be sure to follow the podcast, so you never miss an episode!

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19:54

Annualized Returns of 35%, $115m AUM and 7 Investment...

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2024/05/06

There's a gentleman who manages a $115 million AUM fund with annualized returns of 35% (before fees) since inception. And he wrote a 3,150-word letter for those who dream of compounding their money at 20-25% per year over the course of their careers. 1. Your chance of becoming a great investor is 1/50 of 1% or something. If not less… You have almost no chance of being a great investor.” 2. Going to Harvard, Stanford, Wharton or reading every book ever written on investing won't make you a ...

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56:36

How I Bought 3 Companies And Built $20M Industrial...

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2024/04/29

Ever considered acquiring a profitable, sub $1-5M EBITDA niche business? So you could spend summers on Lake Como, winters in Aspen, and Saturdays in Las Vegas at the Wynn listening to David Guetta… Or so you could retire your parents, send your lovely kids to a private school, and buy your wife the BMW convertible she always wanted… I don't know your exact dream, but owning a business like this makes it all possible. So... I have something for you. I believe Jules Brenner of the Indus...

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53:24

How I Make $14M Net Profit Per Year With a Team Of 16...

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2024/04/22

What would be your potential reward for mastering the fundamentals? Whether it's small business acquisitions, private equity investing, or the financial media and newsletter business… In Matt’s case the reward is approximately $14,000,000 in net profit in 2024 All this with a team of 16 people. We discuss: — How to grow a business (Growing 86% in 2020; 77% in 2021) — Email is still massively untapped for PE funds, VCs and traditional businesses — Spend $1-2m per month on advertising — ...

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19:22

How He Built $500M Revenue and $100M EBITDA HoldCo in...

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2024/04/19

Imagine being so unhappy with your boss that you leave… - Start the exact same business - Following the exact same strategy Today, ONLY 5 yrs later do $500m in revenue and $100m in EBITDA Here is my full research on a true M&A and buy-and-build pioneer Mr. Fredrik Karlsson: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:52 - 24 portfolio companies (15 B2B; 9 B2C) 00:03:51 - The type of businesses they acquire 00:07:00 - The beauty of investing in HoldCo businesses 00:10:05 - A very successful investment in...

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43:26

How I Acquired 8 Companies By Age Of 32 While...

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2024/04/07

Here is the dream story of many entrepreneurs: Owning a business that generates so much free cash flow that you can invest in/acquire 8 businesses. I’d even call him Andrew Wilkinson Jr… Capital allocation at its best… Started in 2017… Today there are 8 companies in his portfolio. All while being 32, traveling & living in 20 countries, having Tim Ferriss as an inspiration and driving a Range Rover Sports. Most importantly, being generally happy and relaxed (my comments about h...

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28:34

My Top 16 Lessons On Actively Looking For Exeptional...

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2024/03/29

One great acquisition can change the life of you and your children.Forever.As the smartest private market deal makers have said:"The goal is to acquire $10 bills for $3 ... and again, that's only possible in the private markets."My top 5 lessons on actively looking for exeptional $2-10 million revenue companies. (Pre-acquisition)1. Being street smart will take you further than you can imagine. Cold calling. Being likable.General soft skill, listening more than talking, asking great questions....

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32:59

How To Grow ANY Traditional $2-$10M Niche Business...

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2024/03/21

The day has come! SME people, whatever you are doing, stop it. Here is a masterclass: How to grow ANY traditional and “boring” business 50-200% annually. From $2.2M to $3.1M… From $7.6M to $11.2M… From $1.2M to $1.8M… And why do so many boring niche businesses suck at marketing? Masterclass notes: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:56 - Why should we listen to Priit in the first place? 00:01:25 - Customers are satisfied with my products, what next? 00:02:43 - “Yes, but I have an agency or m...

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26:22

How This Private Equity Fund Achieved An IRR of 72%...

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2024/03/11

Spent 7 hours researching a true master of small cap private equity: - 586 transactions - Acquire $1 million to $10 million EBITDA companies - Average deal $12 million - 72% IRR - 7x cash on cash returns He had two rare public appearances on Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s and Harry Stebbings' 20VC podcast. His name is Justin Ishbia and he is the founder of Shore Capital Partners. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:28 - Mentors 00:02:05 - Lessons from dad 00:04:05 - Early days of Shore Capital Partners 0...

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55:35

How I Bought 12 Service Companies (Without Investors)...

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2024/03/04

Very first acquisition in November 2016 As of March 2024, they manage a portfolio of 12 companies. All done with their own capital. (Except the one they did in late 2023) 95% of acquisitions have been owner succession & retirement driven buy-outs. Cub Investments with Nick Haschka makes long term buy & hold equity investments in growth-oriented field services companies. Most importantly, all this while raising three beautiful children. Their biggest competitive advantage...

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60:41

How I Bought Real Estate Which Makes Me $1.7 Million...

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2024/02/18

What if you can't code and you're not good at tech? You go and start a business that makes $1.7 million per year. This is what Ben Wolff did with little money and reasonably short period of time. Today, he manages more than $65 million worth of real estate. "With our properties, we achieve industry-leading margins of, say, 52-55% NOI." We discuss: — Opening first property — Starting an real estate management company — Secrets of using social media platforms in short stay — Achieving 52-...

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55:50

How I Bought 8 Traditional Businesses and Built a...

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2024/01/25

Ever wondered who are the young folks who build these great business portfolios? 2020 $17.0m 2021 $44.1m 2022 $64.9m 2023 $126.8m All that within a reasonably short time. While spending tons of time with kids and family. I mean today Rafael Quinn is 44 years old, but decades from now people will be Googling him to find out how he started this massive conglomerate called Alternative Holdings. The best investment advice: • Buy companies you understand • Run by people you want to work ...

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49:26

How I Left Goldman Sachs To Start a $1B+ Company |...

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2024/01/17

Imagine being in your 30s and having a track record of raising more than a billion in debt and equity. And starting a company which is worth over $1 billion. Here you go: Let me introduce you to Michael Cassau. From working at Goldman Sachs and Rocket Internet. To founding a company that raised more than $330 million in a recent fundraising round. Location: Germany Name of the company: Grover We discuss: — Investors and the signals they follow — What does it really take to raise...

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62:59

How I Buy Machinery, Make Millions in Net Profit and...

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2024/01/05

Ujwal and his VERY unsexy story on building a holding company which is on track to hit 8-figures in EBITDA. All while being just 32 yrs old, traveling the world and sometimes working 3-4 hrs a week. The crazy part – he built it with no prior PE or M&A experience. His secret to success: "Just go and do it. Have the ability to figure things out. That's all. That's the advice." We discuss: — How to save enough to buy a business — Funding for all of his transactions — Managing the company...

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55:46

How I Acquired 4 Companies and Built $30M Portfolio...

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2023/12/23

Mathias Calonius is a serial acquirer and co-founder of the Finnish holding company JATKAJA, which has 5 companies in its portfolio and a turnover of more than 50 million dollars. “The first 3.5 years have included 10+ transactions and the formed 4 group companies stand at around $30M+ in revenue” Location: Finland HoldCo name: JATKAJA (means: continuer) This short 55-minute call turned out to be an MBA on how to build a diversified HoldCo around boring traditional companies. We discu...

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66:25

How I Built My Own Investment Fund Advisory Firm...

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2023/12/15

Michael Bjorn Huseby is an investment fund formation attorney at a global law firm. He represents both fund sponsors (GPs) and investors (LPs). In 66-minutes Michael proved to me that he has seen almost everything in the world of funds... “Investors don’t want to see something they haven’t seen before.” “Yet some GPs pitch an investment deck with a 7% management fee.” We discuss: — Sideletters & waterfalls — How to choose the right structure for your fund — The best ways to buil...

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58:54

How I Built Two Banks to $1 Billion in Total Assets |...

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2023/12/05

Andy Schornack is a CEO of Flagship Bank and a President of Security Bank and Trust Company. Flagship Bank - $324 million in total assets Security Bank and Trust Co. - $713 million in total assets “I always wanted to be in a position where I’m running my own small medium sized company. I didn’t know it’d be a bank.” We discuss: — The story of how they have bought and built two banks from nothing to a Billion $$ in assets — What do bankers look for when giving loans to SMEs — Internet bank...

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59:22

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

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2023/11/21

Val Katayev is a serial entrepreneur with $100M+ in profits & exits. Today Val runs a diversified holding company. Founded and led four successful companies to hyper-growth centered around digital media in display, mobile, music, search and data. On this episode, PrivatEquityGuy & Val discuss:- building $10m and $100m businesses - how to raise millions of dollars for an asset management firm - what makes distribution type businesses so great - how they built a peer-to-peer lending...

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59:32

How I Acquired a Large Company Right After Stanford...

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2023/11/09

Justin Mazeka Vogt is the co-founder and CEO of Evermore Industries, a permanent capital holding company he founded with Ed Redden in 2020 Prior to co-founding Evermore Industries, Justin invested in ~100 transportation and industrial businesses with Bain Capital Credit in Boston, Massachusetts. Justin holds a Finance degree from the University of Notre Dame as well as an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business. (I'm very sorry for my audio. My microphone messed up a few minutes bef...

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77:58

How I Invest My Millions I Earned From High-Stakes...

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2023/10/31

Alec Torelli is one of the most respected poker players in the industry. With over $2,200,000 in tournament winnings and millions more in both live and online cash games. Alec also runs a syndicate WHealthier with the brightest entrepreneurs in the health and wellness space. On this episode, PrivatEquityGuy & Alec discuss: - The insights into his decision-making process when it comes to investments and business opportunities- Asymmetric investments when investing in companies - What d...

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61:52

How I Mastered LBOs (Leveraged Buyouts) and Built...

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2023/10/22

Sacha Jak is the founder of a holding company with 8-figure revenue and 300 employees. He is an expert when it comes leverages buyouts. Sacha's most famous deal was the $2 acquisition of a $12m revenue PC company. On this episode, PrivatEquityGuy & Sacha discuss: - How to get a control in a company even if you own 1% of it - How to actually buy a company using none of our own money going into the deal - A step-by-step guide to getting the best prices from your suppliers - Why staff ...

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