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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 Be a Successful Acquisition Entrepreneur

80% of your deals now in the US and you have access to the SPA. You're taking quite big stakes in these deals because I believe there's like a 20% cap on... If you go above 20%, then you have to have a personal guarantee. So are you managing that or not necessarily? Yeah, so my model is slightly different. And it comes from my private equity backgrounds,. When you're an operating partner or a CEO, you don't have a majority position with any of the businesses, but you have a piece of equity. The issue with that model is you work really hard and you might get 2%, 3%. What happens if you can do that at scale

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