Ted Seides
speaker
4,298 appearances
32 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 17 Aug
Ted Seides’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm Ted Sidies, and this is Capital Allocators.
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My guests on today's show are Alex Sloane and Matt Pearlman, co-founders of Garnet Station Partners, a $4 billion private equity firm focused on buy and build investments in founder-led core economy businesses.
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Alex and Matt are lifelong friends who took an unconventional path out of business school, acquiring a 23-unit Burger King franchise in North Carolina that they scaled to 1,100 locations before selling it back to the franchisor.
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That operating experience became the foundation for their investment firm.
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Our conversation traces that evolution from operators to investors.
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We discussed their shared desk partnership and culture of debate, and the Garnet Station playbook from sourcing lighthouse businesses and moving quickly in fragmented markets to building diversified platforms through disciplined capital allocation.
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We also cover lessons from scaling through cycles, the role of speed and integration in buy and build strategies, and how they think about risk, exits, and long-term value creation.
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Before we get going, it's still travel season.
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Partner meetings and board meetings, the Capital Allocator CIO Summit, Berkshire and Milken.
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Across planes, trains, and automobiles, you're bound to run into a few snags.
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When they're unavoidable, I try to remember Will Gadera's story of the pilot who lifted everyone's spirits by bringing families into the cockpit.
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But it's not always easy, which leads to my most recent pet peeve: speed limits.
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When I travel to certain places, everyone religiously follows the speed limit.
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In Florida along A1A, if you go much over 35 miles per hour, there's a good chance you'll get a ticket.
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In Sun Valley, I once got stopped for rolling through a blinking red light at a whopping 4 miles per hour.
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Once I adjust, I find it relaxing to drive slowly.
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It reminds me of the Pixar movie Cars when the old timers off Route 66 drove low and slow.
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However, when I'm in Connecticut or New York, I'm a totally different driver.
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I need to get places, and if I'm running late, I'll end up on a single-lane road for five miles behind someone driving annoyingly slow.
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That person is probably driving 35 miles per hour, the speed limit.
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