Minds Capital Around the World

Minds investments and LPs are distributed across North America (and beyond)

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Guest(s):

Aaron Stahl

Episode:

"I Sold My Business to an Independent Sponsor"

Location:

Fayetteville, AR

Guest(s):

Alex de Pfyffer & Ross Porter

Episode:

From Searcher to Independent Sponsor to $225m Fund

Location:

New York, NY

Guest(s):

Corbin Cook, Alex Swanston

Episode:

7x Organic EBITDA Growth After Liberating Employees

Location:

Carrollton, TX

Guest(s):

Andrew McDonald

Episode:

1 Equity Raise ($500k), 4 PortCos

Location:

Dallas, TX

Guest(s):

Azhar Quader

Episode:

Buying an 800-Unit Hair Salon during Covid

Location:

New York, NY

Guest(s):

Ben Hughes

Episode:

$100m Deployed in 2+ Years — Thanks to Industry Focus

Location:

Dallas, TX

Guest(s):

Bobby Sheth

Episode:

Expand Multiple by Zone-Skipping EBITDA

Location:

Boston, MA

Guest(s):

Bruce Lipian

Episode:

Steak & Sizzle with a Side of Fundless

Location:

Newport Beach, CA

Guest(s):

Chandos Mahon

Episode:

One Man's Trash: 5x MOIC on a 14-Deal Waste Roll-Up

Location:

Miami, FL

Guest(s):

Chris Breaux

Episode:

The Applied AI Engineer: A New PE Weapon

Location:

Washington, DC

Guest(s):

Edwin Burke, Chris Eichmann

Episode:

"We're Not Operators": Bridging Capital & Management

Location:

Lake Worth, FL

Guest(s):

Christian Seale

Episode:

From Venture Capital to Independent Sponsor

Location:

Miami, FL

Guest(s):

Cory Sandrock

Episode:

Quadruple EBITDA in 3.5 Years, Then Exit at 14x

Location:

Chicago, IL

Guest(s):

Craig Dupper

Episode:

Partner Equity, Not Private Equity

Location:

Park City, UT

Guest(s):

Alan Baca, Dana Robinson

Episode:

A 9-Deal Rollup Without Losing 1 Customer

Location:

San Diego, CA

Guest(s):

Dan Chetrit

Episode:

Two Recaps To 10.5x MOIC

Location:

Montreal, QC

Guest(s):

Dan Tamkin

Episode:

Skipping $2m EBITDA Deals ("The Messy Middle")

Location:

Los Angeles, CA

Guest(s):

David Acharya

Episode:

20x MOIC After Decade-Long Hold

Location:

New York, NY

Guest(s):

Doug Song

Episode:

Carving Out an 8x MOIC in 3 Years

Location:

Nashville, TN

Guest(s):

Edoardo Maggini

Episode:

Acquiring $10m of EBITDA as Industry Operators

Location:

New York, NY

Guest(s):

Edward Crawford

Episode:

How to Build an Indy Sponsor Team Before Chasing Deals

Location:

Dallas, TX

Guest(s):

Edwin Burke, Chris Eichmann

Episode:

"We're Not Operators": Bridging Capital & Management

Location:

Greenwich, CT

Guest(s):

Erik Miller

Episode:

Winning Big by Doing Minority Recaps

Location:

New York, NY

Guest(s):

Eugene Polevoy

Episode:

$100m Acquisition as First Deal

Location:

Toronto, Canada

Guest(s):

G. R. Kearney

Episode:

Working Under an Independent Sponsor Who Suddenly Passed Away

Location:

Chicago, IL

Guest(s):

Ian Reynolds

Episode:

8 Years, 8 Portcos Since Starting as a Searcher

Location:

Houston, TX

Guest(s):

James Bohannon

Episode:

Family Offices + Independent Sponsors = Strong Match

Location:

New York, NY

Guest(s):

Jason Faucett

Episode:

Almost 40% IRR across 55 Platforms

Location:

Dallas, TX

Guest(s):

Jay Fuquay

Episode:

How to Build an Investor Database of 4,000 HNWIs

Location:

Dallas, TX

Guest(s):

Jeff Goldstein

Episode:

From Public Company CEO to Independent Sponsor

Location:

Los Angeles, CA

Guest(s):

Jim Bolduc

Episode:

The Family Office Independent Sponsor

Location:

Baltimore, MD

Guest(s):

Jimmy Watson

Episode:

Promoted from Associate to MD at Independent Sponsor Firm

Location:

Dallas, TX

Guest(s):

Jim Tapp

Episode:

50% Carry on 50x MOIC

Location:

Atlanta, GA

Guest(s):

Jory Caulkins

Episode:

"I Care More About Moats Than Multiples"

Location:

Dallas, TX

Guest(s):

Justin Turner

Episode:

11x MOIC by Scaling Revenue from $15m to $100m

Location:

Seattle, WA

Guest(s):

Kevin Ramsier

Episode:

$16m Buyout to $55m Exit in 18 Months

Location:

Charlotte, NC

Guest(s):

Kevin Wong

Episode:

A Family Office's View From 27 Platforms

Location:

Dallas, TX

Guest(s):

Leah Berend

Episode:

Acquiring Infrastructure for PortCos

Location:

Minneapolis, MN

Guest(s):

Logan Walters

Episode:

Holding All-Equity Deals Forever

Location:

Houston, TX

Guest(s):

Lou Grabowsky

Episode:

11 Exits in 11 Years

Location:

Dallas, TX

Guest(s):

Luis Reyes

Episode:

24 Add-Ons in 24 Months

Location:

Barcelona

Guest(s):

Marc Cabrera

Episode:

4 of 4 Exits Above 10x MOIC

Location:

Telluride, CO

Guest(s):

Matt Bodnar

Episode:

Buying at <5x by Mastering Deal Flow

Location:

Nashville, TN

Guest(s):

Michael Kornman

Episode:

$233m For and By Independent Sponsors

Location:

Dallas, TX

Guest(s):

Michael Sutton

Episode:

20x a $10m investment in 2.5 years

Location:

Charlottesville, VA

Guest(s):

Michael Healy

Episode:

The 16-Year Path to a $175m Revenue Portfolio

Location:

New York, NY

Guest(s):

Nathan Chandrasekaran

Episode:

The Journey to 7 Platforms

Location:

Seattle, WA

Guest(s):

Neal Doshi

Episode:

Pushed Out by Anchor Investor

Location:

Bloomfield Hills, MI

Guest(s):

Neel Bhargava

Episode:

From Minority Stake to Double EBITDA in 2 Years

Location:

New York, NY

Guest(s):

Nick Haschka

Episode:

Engineering 40% Carry

Location:

Los Gatos, CA

Guest(s):

Nick Huber

Episode:

Nick Huber: From 400k Followers to $52m Deal

Location:

Athens, GA

Guest(s):

Nicolás Lulli

Episode:

$10m EBITDA After COVID Killed The Business

Location:

Lima, Peru

Guest(s):

Nikolay Dimitrov

Episode:

From UEFA Champions League to Deal-By-Deal PE

Location:

Bulgaria

Guest(s):

Peter Lehrman

Episode:

Axial's Lessons From 10,000 Lower-Middle Market Deals

Location:

New York, NY

Sponsor:

Steven McGrath

Acquisition:

Project Apollo

Location:

Atlanta, GA

Sponsor:

Joseph Wisniewski

Acquisition:

Project Atlas

Location:

Las Vegas, NV

Sponsor:

Stenning Schueppert

Acquisition:

Project Cable

Location:

Asheboro, NC

Sponsor:

Jeff Goldstein

Acquisition:

Project Celsius

Location:

Pittsburgh, PA

Sponsor:

Mike Sutton

Acquisition:

Project Christmas

Location:

College Station, TX

Sponsor:

Ben Rollins

Acquisition:

Project Clip

Location:

Pittsburgh, PA

Sponsor:

Yan Vinarskiy

Acquisition:

Project Coating

Location:

Chicago, IL

Sponsor:

Rick Apple

Acquisition:

Project Commodore

Location:

Jersey Shore, PA

Sponsor:

CiCi McMullen

Acquisition:

Project Dawn

Location:

Tampa, FL

Sponsor:

Sequoya Borgman

Acquisition:

Project Diamond

Location:

Columbus, IN

Sponsor:

William Boffa & Darren Fultz

Acquisition:

Project Grace

Location:

Dallas, TX

Sponsor:

Ryan Manacheril

Acquisition:

Project Home

Location:

Arcadia, CA

Sponsor:

Jeffrey Reamer

Acquisition:

Project Tourism

Location:

Tucson, AZ

Sponsor:

Daniel Khazzam & Ben Rapaport

Acquisition:

Project Leo

Location:

Pittsburgh, PA

Sponsor:

Stenning Schueppert

Acquisition:

Project Michigan

Location:

Detroit, MI

Sponsor:

Erik Scott

Acquisition:

Project Omar

Location:

Dallas, TX

Sponsor:

Mike Sutton

Acquisition:

Project Cost

Location:

Fayetteville, AR

Sponsor:

Kevin Brady

Acquisition:

Project Pet

Location:

Nashville, TN

Sponsor:

Thomas Ince

Acquisition:

Project Rewind

Location:

Rochester Hills, MI

Sponsor:

Bart MacDonald

Acquisition:

Project Cyber

Location:

New York, NY

Sponsor:

Mike Samek

Acquisition:

Project Spotless

Location:

Old Bridge, NJ

Sponsor:

Chris Kirsch & Ian Reynolds

Acquisition:

Project Tropical

Location:

San Juan, PR

Sponsor:

James Zubok

Acquisition:

Project TrueNorth

Location:

Northbrook, IL

Sponsor:

Chandos Mahon

Acquisition:

Project Waste

Location:

Thief River Falls, MN

Guest(s):

Quinten Griffiths

Episode:

$100m Fund? No, Thanks!

Location:

Calgary, AB

Guest(s):

Ramiro Alfaro

Episode:

Why Committed LPs Beat Committed Capital

Location:

Guatemala

Guest(s):

Renaud Besançon

Episode:

Buying 9-Figure Deals

Location:

Paris

Guest(s):

Richard Baum

Episode:

Tripled EBITDA, Doubled Multiple, Exited Early

Location:

White Plains, NY

Guest(s):

Rick Apple

Episode:

The 3-5-7x MOIC Underwriting Framework

Location:

Nashville, TN

Guest(s):

Rob Casper

Episode:

Aggregating SMBs Inside a Public Company

Location:

Houston, TX

Guest(s):

Robert Graham

Episode:

33 PortCos in 6 Years

Location:

Dallas, TX

Guest(s):

Robert Koven

Episode:

The State of SaaS in 2025

Location:

New York, NY

Guest(s):

Ryan Sullivan

Episode:

Buy Small ($1m EBITDA at 4x), Keep Winning

Location:

Chicago, IL

Guest(s):

Sam Turner

Episode:

Financing Add-Ons Without New Equity

Location:

Ampthill, UK

Guest(s):

Sarkaw Aziz

Episode:

To Exit or Not to Exit: 2x MOIC in 2 Years

Location:

Boston, MA

Guest(s):

Sequoya Borgman

Episode:

Borgman: 500 LPs Across 10 Platforms

Location:

Milwaukee, WI

Guest(s):

Stenning Schueppert

Episode:

A Portfolio Marked Up at 10x MOIC

Location:

Austin, TX

Guest(s):

Steve McGrath

Episode:

Solo Sponsor: 5 Deals & 2 Exits

Location:

Atlanta, GA

Guest(s):

Ted Kramer

Episode:

The 123-Year-Old Firm's Independent Sponsor Blitz

Location:

Indianapolis, IN

Guest(s):

Bill Boffa & Darren Fultz

Episode:

Platform + Key Competitor = Multiple Expansion

Location:

Houston, TX

Guest(s):

Zachary Miller

Episode:

Combining 2 Platforms to Reach $20m EBITDA

Location:

New York, NY

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