Damian Maldonado

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan · From Homeless Shelter to Building a Billion-Dollar Mortgage Company | Damian Maldonado | E146 · 19 Feb 2026 podcast

And then a PE firm came, gave us a $960 million offer.

And I'm like, wow.

And we kind of knew where their valuation was because we before did an evaluation somewhere 900 to even went as high as 1.5 billion.

Evaluations are just what somebody is willing to pay and what you agree on.

I mean, so...

I saw it and it was $450 million up front.

But our best year, you know, we did whatever was hundreds of millions of dollars gross and then say $150, $160 net.

And then when I did the math, it was like two years of EBITDA in my eyes.

And that was before I knew rates were going to skyrocket.

I'm like, well, I'm going to make that up in two years.

Plus there was an earn out.

So I like, you know, I'll hold off.

I'm not going to do it right now.

And then rates skyrocketed shortly thereafter, not right there.

And then I don't even look at it as a negative as a learning experience.

I believe now we're positioned to even grow better and bigger than we were before as rates go down in this market right now.

So we'll see.

But it was definitely a learning experience.

I've always thought, and even now, like, you know, I have a boutique hotel on the beach and restaurant and I have a great manager and she runs it and we have meetings if we need them.

I try not to get involved in my main business, American Financing.

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