Buy and Build

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

Oct 17, 2022

50:44

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

How to Be a Successful Private Equity Investor

3min

How to Scale via Acquisition

3min

The UK Ecosystem and the Small Business Asset Class

4min

The Differences Between the US and UK Markets

3min

How to Be a Successful Acquisition Entrepreneur

2min

How to Scale a Company via Acquisitions

2min

How to Generate Deal Flow

2min

How to Succeed in the Acquisition Entrepreneurship Space

2min

10.

How to Build a High Value Exit Strategy

3min

11.

The Advantages of Interim CFOs in Private Equity

3min

12.

How to Make a CFO, COO, and CFO Permanent

2min

13.

The Importance of Sector Focuses

3min

14.

The Future of Investment Banking

5min

15.

How to Buy a Business in the Low End of the Market

2min

16.

How to Scale Up Your Business

3min

17.

How to Scale Your Business Podcast

3min

18.

How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur

3min

This week, we speak with Nick Bradley. Nick is an experienced entrepreneur, CEO, and investor in SMEs. Nick now partners with business owners to scale and eventually exit their businesses.

Nick helped grow Getty Images via acquisition around 2008-2010 and more recently helped scale Ascend Learning to an eventual sale to Blackstone PE. Nick also hosts Scale Up With Nick Bradley, which is one of the top-ranking business podcasts in the UK.

In this episode, Nick shares some fascinating stories on how he scaled and exited some fantastic businesses [including a couple of $Bn exits to PE], how he would partner with PE as an operational turnaround expert, his thoughts on SME acquisitions in both the UK and the US, and how he partners with businesses of different sizes to scale and exit. Enjoy this excellent episode!