Much needed.

Oh, man. “She was *just* a clinical psychologist?” I so feel bad for you when you get home tonight, Rob! 😅

Great interview, guys! And, 24:17 “It’s on the front of the book” - solid burn 😉 Rob cruised right past that 😜

When your brother said “twenty million”, you should have just quickly added, “…EACH.” 😅

This may get some more views as Zia Yusuf has recently make a substantial donation to very controversial far-right political party in the UK. He is campaigning on their behalf making claims that the curious will want to check out. This was interesting to watch as Yusuf’s claims and how Macdonald describes the company are somewhat at odds. They sold out to Capital One - a very poor decision ethically: guns;, NRA, Elbit Systems. But knowing of that decision, it doesn’t surprise me in the least that Yusuf has now aligned himself to the far-right.

This is telling. My company is a long time MacPractice user and since Valsoft acquired MP in 2020, they have ceased software development. Contrary to what Khoubbleh says, despite significant increases in pricing since 2020, MacPractice has NOT and does NOT deliver "way more in value" at all. Joe is full of crap. MP hasn't provided any improvements since 2020. All they do is push their business services, like outsourced billing. Today, after a recent update MacPractice doesn't function and keeps crashing and we can't submit medical claims. Remaining with a company that serves only as a revenue stream for Valsoft, puts my company is a very vulnerable position. I will switch EHR's before year's end.

Impressive story - what an interesting business and execution.

Did not know you had video!! Call it out more often John :-). 4+ year listener. Thanks!

Such a beautiful man, Seth. God bless him for his wisdom and knowledge. Great talk!

It is clear what the product is about & why the High flyers love it. Specialist assistant.

Seems a pretty humble guy. Their business model reminds me of the Texas Billionaire ehoncreate Trilogy software

She’s the kind of founder I admire! Sharing some equity with her employees.

Excellent John and Matt. You hit my mind exactly where I am these days.

Please please please help 5000

Huge!! How aren’t more people seeing this

Excellent information! Jotting down surety bonds.

The SIlver Tsunami is in full force!

Brilliant line of questions. great episode John

Good story and outcome. My takeaways: - Had he structured his company in the Built To Sell style, it wouldn't have taken him 3 months to get through due diligence. - From Semrush's perspective, it makes sense to buy a digital property with an audience of qualified leads. Customer growth play from them. - Ask for more! He could've asked for more than 5M and negotiated to get a better deal.

Sad there's no comments. 😞

I suggest the following analysis for the benefit of anyone else who might find themselves in the same situation. If you have created something of great value there are two possibilities. 1. you were lucky. Lightning is unlikely to strike twice in the same place. Take the money and run. 2. You were clever. You can do it again, take the money and run. Have a fabulous holiday, then repeat the process as often as you wish. And teach it to your children, and anyone else you care about.

How is that multiple possible??

Private equity a great way to other business are thinking to leaving or selling to a wealthy group .

Can you share your banker Todd’s contact info?

How can I switch from a creator to an investor?

☀️ "promosm"

Bro sounds like john wayne

killer interview. i dig Alexx's style. tried finding him online but he seems to be (smarter than us and therefore) a ghost. great work to John and team for finding him!

Awesome

Sorry, I lost all respect when he mentioned Harvard business school and his "mother." I want to hear about remarkable people and businesses, not spoiled brats that had everything handed to them.

I look forward to finishing this interesting interview! We too just launched a new JV with a PE group in June of 2023, so these are some neat perspectives

Great info! I’m a student of carls.

Carl is the man! This link up is amazing

Yo I'm the REAL Adam Coffey dawg

I’m new to the channel - but This is one of the best/simplest explanations of Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity that I have come across, in only a 1 hour interview. Tons, of value, Will definitely be buying his book and your book, Thanks!

what a great podcast "Exit Paradox"!! I love it!!!

This lady really gets it! The post-exit journey is a wild ride. Her ideas, especially about “creators” vs “investors”, are spot-on. Knowing it's okay to be a bad investor but a great creator? That's a game-changer. Thanks to Anastasia, I'm automating my investing and going full throttle on creating. It's so freeing! Huge thanks to John for bringing her on board.

High Quality production! It tells a good story to learn from.

Thank you for this!

At 44:20, Jason saying "some founders give nothing to staff" Not cool. Having worked at startups, I would say, that stops most great talent from working there. One startup I was at started skimping on stock option grants/vesting and we were unable to hire some great talent who came through and interviewed. On an earlier job hunt, a startup I interviewed with said "we don't offer stock options, but when we go public, we're going to take care of people" If you're smart enough to produce amazing work outcomes, you're repelled by the self-delusional attitude by the person making that statement. ('they'll trust me when I say we'll take care of them') If you want engineers to work 80, 100 hour weeks, and you're not going to give stock option incentive, when 99.99% of startups will, it's not happening. .

Thank you for sharing this session. Curious to know if the book includes case studies, and Without a keynote resume, is this path an option? Thank you!

I just think I might be in need of hiring a COO

When the seller rolls say 30% into the newco how does the PE company know how much equity to offer the seller in the newco? Presumably since the second bite of the apple will be much larger this equity stake in the potentially larger newco would likely be single digit equity. Interested to know how this is calculated.

Great interview! I learned a lot! Thank you 🙏

Hand over fist

Love Coffey!

Restore your sence of self. I was ok before hand.. let it go

Thanks for the interview! Cheers

Best interview. Value from the first second. Buying his book now. Thanks Jon

GREAT episode!