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

Buy and Build

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How to Scale a Company via Acquisitions

I don't put any cash into deals. Unless I'm buying, we spoke before we press record. If you add up my equity positions now, they're well into nine figures of exit value. Just off the ones I've got. One company's already been valued at 180 million and I've got a small stake in that,. But I sit on the main board with two VC backers. So I've managed to build my model if you like around that world. We can basically roll this up and sell the thing for eight to 12 times.

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