Ori Eldarov is the Co-Founder & CEO of OffDeal.

OffDeal is an AI-native investment bank for small businesses.

They offer small business owners a hassle-free way to sell their company for the highest price to the best possible buyer.

They leverage years of Wall Street experience and their custom-built proprietary AI technology to ensure your business attracts the highest number of buyers so that you can realize the full value of your life's work.

OffDeal also offers buy-side services that assist buyers with proprietary deal origination (typically add-ons) and comprehensive market mapping/market research services to support due diligence or portfolio value creation.

Takeaways

His journey from i-banking at RBC to HBS to founding OffDeal.
GenAI sparked Ori's interest in applying it to finance.
His YC experience and learnings.
Streamlining business transactions using technology.
Marketplace challenges in SMB transactions.
AI and human touch: The OffDeal Model.
Building trust in a fragmented industry.
Trends in SMB acquisitions: opportunities and challenges.
Timing the market: when to sell a business.
Scaling through founder-led sales.
OPEX versus CAPEX.
How OffDeal is focused on scale in a traditionally boutique space.

Chapters

00:00 From Banking to Entrepreneurship: A Journey Begins

05:52 The Birth of OffDeal: Innovating Investment Banking

10:08 Marketplace Challenges in SMB Transactions

14:24 AI and Human Touch: The OffDeal Model

18:10 Building Trust in a Fragmented Industry

22:31 Trends in SMB Acquisitions: Opportunities and Challenges

27:58 Timing the Market: When to Sell a Business

30:37 Scaling Through Founder-Led Sales

33:12 Establishing Trust: The Key to Success

36:40 Creating Jobs and Delivering Value

Keywords

entrepreneurship, investment banking, OffDeal, AI, small business, marketplace, trust, M&A, trends, business sales

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