Latest Permanentcapital Podcast Episodes
Daniel Hudspeth - Scaling Concierge Medicine - Ep.168
Think Like an Owner - April 25, 2023 18:18 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsEp. 168: Alex (@aebridgeman) is joined by Daniel Hudspeth (@danielhudspeth). My guest today, Daniel Hudspeth, is the CEO of Discover Health, a concierge medical practice business with locations in California, Boston, and soon to be Seattle. During his search Daniel did extensive research on priv...
Chris Hoffmann - Building Scale in Home Services - Ep.167
Think Like an Owner - April 18, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsEpisode 167: Alex Bridgeman (@aebridgeman) is joined by Chris Hoffman (Chris-Hoffman). My guest, Chris Hoffmann, is the President and CEO of Hoffmann Brothers, a home services business based in St. Louis. Hoffmann Brothers have scaled from $10 million in 2015 to over $100 million in revenue in 20...
Ed Redden - Operating at the Intersection of Hardware and Software - Ep.166
Think Like an Owner - April 11, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsEpisode 166: Alex (@aebridgeman) is joined by Ed Redden (@Edward-Redden). Ed and his partner Justin Vogt are former podcast guests from episode 59 where we talked about starting Evermore Industries, an industrial services holding company. Last year they acquired AVUITY, based in Cincinnati, which...
Chenmark Series 3: Recruiting CEOs and Future Planning - Ep.165
Think Like an Owner - April 04, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsThis is the third and final episode in our three-part series 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 employees today. This third episode t...
Chenmark Series 2: Ethos and Incentives - Ep.164
Think Like an Owner - March 28, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsPlease 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+ ac...
Chenmark Series 1: Founding Ideals - Ep.163
Think Like an Owner - March 21, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsPlease 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...
Orlando Remak and Jalen Ross - HOA Management Holding Company - Ep.162
Think Like an Owner - March 14, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsPlease 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 comp...
CEO Series Ep.3: Daniel Reese - Ep.161
Think Like an Owner - March 07, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsPlease 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-...
CEO Series Ep.2: Adam Ilowite and Michael Upex - Ep.160
Think Like an Owner - February 28, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsPlease 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 d...
CEO Series Ep.1: Ryan Galea - Ep.159
Think Like an Owner - February 21, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy 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 ...
Trilogy Search Series Ep.6: Stijn Hendrikse - Ep.158
Think Like an Owner - February 14, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsThis 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 marketin...
[Re-Run] Ross Brendel - Investing in Permanent Capital Vehicles - Ep.157
Think Like an Owner - February 07, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsToday’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 ...
Sandy Paige - Managing Teams for Scale - Ep.156
Think Like an Owner - January 31, 2023 11:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy 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 sea...
Michael Coscetta - Sales Teams that Perform - Ep.155
Think Like an Owner - January 24, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy 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 ...
Nick Buchanan - Company Data Dashboards at BUCS Analytics - Ep.154
Think Like an Owner - January 17, 2023 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy 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 t...
Carl Streck - Building a Commercial Real Estate Data and Software Company - Ep.153
Think Like an Owner - January 10, 2023 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy 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 ...
Sean Joy - CEO Journey within Chenmark - Ep.152
Think Like an Owner - January 03, 2023 11:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy 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...
Alex de Pfyffer & Ross Porter - Investing Strategies in Data - Ep.150
Think Like an Owner - December 20, 2022 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy 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 o...
Johnny Lieberman & Zack Miller - "Only the Paranoid Survive" - Ep.149
Think Like an Owner - December 13, 2022 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy 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 f...
Richard Reese - Designing Incentives at Iron Mountain - Ep.148
Think Like an Owner - December 06, 2022 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy 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 ...
Judd Lorson - Designing a Healthy Mindset as CEO - Ep.147
Think Like an Owner - November 29, 2022 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy 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...
Luis Reyes - Fire Protection Thesis in Spain - Ep.146
Think Like an Owner - November 22, 2022 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy 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...
On Revenue Quality with Bradley Roofner and Logan Brown - Ep.145
Think Like an Owner - November 17, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy 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 l...
Josh Schultz - Scaling CaneKast - Ep.144
Think Like an Owner - November 15, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy 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 abou...
Selling your Business with Brandon Kuchta - Ep. 143
Think Like an Owner - November 10, 2022 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy guest on this episode is Brandon Kuchta, the former CEO of Analytical Technologies Group, which provides repair, maintenance, and contract services for lab instruments. I say former because he sold ATG last October, and today's episode is going to cover all things selling a company from determ...
A.J. Wasserstein - Living a Happier Life - Ep.142
Think Like an Owner - November 08, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy guest on this episode is A.J. Wasserstein. Early in his career, A.J. founded Archives One, a physical records management business he operated as CEO for 17 years before selling to Iron Mountain. He then acquired One Source Water, which was eventually sold to Water Logic in 2016. He then began ...
Lessons from Family Businesses with Jamie Shah - Ep. 141
Think Like an Owner - November 03, 2022 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy guest on this episode is Jamie Shah. Jamie worked in investment banking and Google before returning to her family's business, Chem-Impex International, which manufactures materials for life sciences companies, as VP of Operations. Today, she is the managing director at the company and a profes...
Nevin Raj - Building a Data Software Company at Grata - Ep.140
Think Like an Owner - November 01, 2022 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy guest on this episode is Nevin Raj, Co-Founder and COO of Grata. Grata is a fascinating data software business that takes in all available public information about private companies, such as their website, LinkedIn, funding data, PPP data, and so much more. It then uses that data to create the...
Jessica Markowitz - On Culture and Values - Ep.139
Think Like an Owner - October 27, 2022 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsI'm very excited to share that starting today Think Like An Owner will now be publishing episodes twice per week. This change coincides with our decision to close the Operators Handbook and move those topic-specific conversations to the podcast for Thursday morning episodes. You can expect these ...
Trevor Flannigan - "People Grow Businesses" - Ep.138
Think Like an Owner - October 25, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsMy guest on this episode is Trevor Flanagan, COO of Flint Group, a home services roll-up founded by Collin Hathaway. Collin’s appeared on this podcast twice, on episodes 32 and 90, for good reason, and I highly recommend listening to those episodes as a primer for this conversation with Trevor. T...
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