John Howard

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1,497 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Unlocking Value · Episode 35: Duncan Ramsay – Inside the investor mindset: Building scalable consulting firms · 26 May 2026 podcast

Yeah, I mean, I think it is certainly that I went through my own private equity process several years ago. matched

Like you realize like kind of people who work in private equity are investors. matched

It's a different skill set and it's kind of you got lots of experience of what good looks like, but they are different things. matched

is interesting. matched

I mean different houses will do different things, but you guys have the ECI unlocked program. matched

Can you just say a bit about what that is and how you use that? matched

And just kinda just to give people perspective, how many businesses are in the portfolio at any given time, roughly? matched

I'm sure. matched

So we've talked a lot about kind of your views on investing in professional services. matched

You also buy a reasonable amount of professional services, whether that's kind of pre deal, post deal support, whatever that might be. matched

When you're buying professional services, whether that's diligence work or whatever it might be, what are you actually looking for in terms of kind of ideal providers for you as a buyer of services? matched

talking about earlier in the AI question. matched

If you think about the kind of diligence spec you might be writing in a year from now, or you know, even shorter, how is that different from what you might commission? matched

I guess how much of that kind of analysis, repeatable stuff will you still look to externals to do, but maybe do differently? matched

How much of that will you bring like where do you see the future of diligence for somebody like ECI going? matched

So kind of lower cost upfront thing that doesn't require a lot of necessarily input, maybe development cost, but not a lot of kind of time input necessarily from the delighted provider, but it kind of almost locks you into the using of that sort of yeah, that makes a lot of sense. matched

Yeah. matched

And I think you guys do work with kind of lots of big firms, probably some smaller firms. matched

How are you seeing that kind of boutique versus big dynamic changing, if at all? matched

Dang, you've been really generous with your time and insights and everything. matched

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