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Ep 51: How to Scale Businesses that Blackstone would Acquire [Nick Bradley: Investor, and Scale Up and Exit Specialist]

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How to Scale via Acquisition

I think where it really started to take off was when I was at a company called Getty Images, based out of New York. We did somewhere like 40 odd acquisitions in the time that I was at Getty over literally only a couple of years. And it's a great case study for anyone who wants to know how to scale via acquisition because in private equity, that's the playbook. In my time, it was bought and sold twice, but it's been bought and sold four or five times. If you look at the valuation now, I think it's about five to six billion right now.

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