Brandon Dawson
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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It's predictable.
It's got growth trajectory.
And it's dependable because all private equity, venture capital is entirely different.
Private equity likes to invest in things that's predictable, it's consistent, and it has upside.
Otherwise, they're not interested in it unless they're going to consolidate it into somebody else they like, and they're just investing in you to get rid of all you and the people around you.
So you got to know who you are and what kind of target you are because a lot of people are excited.
Oh, I'm going to do a deal with private equity and then they close and then they're fired and their team's wiped out because they were a bolt-on or they were a plug-in or they were a whatever.
They just got rolled inside of somebody else's organization.
So seeing all this, I was like, how can I in the small business space create multiple platform companies?
And that gave me the idea of reverse consolidation.
Instead of me raising capital and diluting my equity and going out and buying businesses and trying to turn owners into employees, which doesn't really work,
very well.
Why don't I start a platform company and go to owners who are struggling and say, I'll build marketing, sales, leadership, operations, finance, technology.
You can offload all that to me, and instead of me buying your company, I'll give you equity in my company with the right to swap
to buy into your company at a predetermined valuation.
And I was told it wouldn't work.
The SEC said I couldn't do it.
All this taxation issues, franchise laws, I bumped up against all that, but I was able to create a workable model that I launched in 2006 with the idea that if I could build a prototype to consolidate a vertical, I could do it across hundreds of verticals.
I launched that business, bootstrapped, built the rules and requirements of how I wanted to build a business without needing anybody else's capital.
and read a lot of books to really become an expert in the things I was not good at the first time around.
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