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Acquiring Minds
The Dream Outcome: From $300k to $5m EBITDA
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You will.
And that's powerful. That's very powerful. Right? And you know, how can you not want to be a business owner after hearing, you know, that kind of statement from, from your employees who are willing to, you know, you convert them from being terrorists to being patriots.
Right. And really, really wanting to do well for the company. And it shows. Will, like, with everything with clients and just treating each other like the people who, like, are good people, are, are good to, you know, everyone around them. And it's just a positive thing to be around. So.
Well, one of the, the patterns in this podcast is that many searchers get into search or buying a business for a particular reason, and then they find to their surprise that, that the impact that they can have on their people, on their employees, turns out to be one of the most gratifying parts of the journey. And it wasn't even one that was on their radar. And I've heard that time and again.
Linh, I want to start closing us out here, but I, before we close, I'll mention that I interviewed Catherine Butler Dines a couple episodes ago. So her, her interview will have aired before, before this one.
Sure.
And she is part of the Duke Fuqua community and a searcher, and she knew you and she was considering a search, considering traditional search, as it turned out. She worked. She went and got a CEO role at Alpine, the private equity fund that hires you know, MBA grads to, to be, to run, to be the CEOs of their platform acquisitions. And you had advised her to go.
Do a self funded search. She did not take that advice. She went and got this CEO role at Alpine.
It wasn't a fit for her. And then so she, she went off then and did do a self funded search. And that's what our interview was about. All right, what did you tell her?
Yeah, no, love Catherine. And her, her husband rule.
Yeah, Rahul. Yeah, exactly.
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