Jeremy has bought and sold over 100 businesses, but never uses a broker.

Great story with Jeremy building a holding company in Dubai while the team is based in Singapore.

Important note: he does all that while traveling twice a month with the family.

Enjoy!

Show notes:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:29 - First acquisition

00:09:51 - Competition on $2-5m deals vs $10m deals

00:12:31 - Early days and growth from 25 employees to 135 employees

00:17:31 - Having a big income vs. selling the business and putting the profits into a new business

00:26:19 - Never use brokers: how to find the best companies and build a pipeline of 100 companies

00:35:37 - Characteristics of companies they acquire today

00:40:10 - Buy-and-sell vs building a huge holding company

00:42:55 - Post acquisition: "I delegate everything, I never show up, and they don't even know me"

00:45:22 - Portfolio company as of today

00:50:28 - Still terrible at fundraising

00:53:09 - Why not raise $200 million and go big

00:55:03 - Doing more of what works

00:56:32 - Joint ventures and the beauty of it

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