Brandon Dawson
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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Exactly what's involved with doing it.
And I built basically 10 elements, 76 sub elements and 240 things.
You got to master to get to 125 million and then it multiplies that to get to a billion.
I built it all off the research with the idea that when I sold my business, I was going to start a new company.
which is Cardo Mentors now.
One of my mentors told me in 2013, you can't just go start a whole bunch of new companies if you don't prove this concept to work where you're using a shared equity model with your clients versus a crammed down acquiring model.
You got to prove the cycle.
So what I did is I looked at all the highest valuations paid for businesses with the same research company.
And I said, why did some of these businesses sell for 30, 40, 50, 100x EBITDA?
What did they have?
And I took that, put it on top of the other model I created, and I had an idea in 2013.
If I position my organization like the highest valued companies that sold, and I sold it the way they sold, I could command one of the highest values for me and my partners.
And I went, and in 2015, I did a roadshow, eight specific targeted potential buyers,
And these are sophisticated, like EQT out of Europe, the $56 billion PE group, Siemens Medical.
These are not small companies.
And I pitched them.
And my pitch was, I'm Brandon Dawson.
I have a $35 million company.
It makes $2.2 million in EBITDA.
I've reverse engineered your business.
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