A quick and informative chat with clients and specialists in the M&A field. They'll discuss tips, hints on the M&A process. We'll keep it fun and informative and you should always leave each episode with new insights.
Episodes
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
Joining us this week is Riccardo Bruni of Heroes (www.makeheroes.co). Heroes is a serial acquirer, building a portfolio of category-leading Amazon marketplace companies. With that business model, Riccardo has gone through the acquisition process many times. In this episode he chats about acquiring these 'mom & pop' businesses in record speed, guiding the businesses through the acquisition process and how Heroes looks to add value post-acquisition.
Monday May 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
During the dot.com boom, today's guest Sheetal Mehta Walsh told Bill Gates exactly what she thought! He gave her a mission and with luck, hard work and some wonderful mentors, Sheetal started the first corporate-based investment strategy in the tech industry. She's gone on to facilitate over $1bn in funding for entrepreneurs, founded her own company with her partner (and turned down a multi-million dollar acquisition offer), and has recently launched the UK’s first all-female led venture capital fund, Soho Ventures. Sheetal explains during this fascinating episode!
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Monday Apr 26, 2021
This week, Giles Thompson joins Bryan and Caroline to chat about his experience as a lawyer and his skills with the Ctrl. F keyboard function. Sensing that there was a better way to do things, Giles joined Avvoka to help both sides of the M&A process manage their contracts and documents more efficiently. And in this week's snack choice, Bryan manages a very back-handed compliment to his wife's baking!
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Joining our hosts this week is Tong Gu. Tong is currently an Investment Lead at Accelerated Digital Ventures, where she looks for investment opportunities in AI and machine learning. Before joining Accelerated Digital Ventures, Tong co-founded her own data analytics startup in Shanghai and scaled the team as COO. She talks about the the lessons she learned as a startup founder and how she now uses that insight in her current role.
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Monday Mar 22, 2021
We're venturing into the world of legal tech this week with our guest Sam Smolkin, Founder & CEO at Office & Dragons. Sam chats about how pulling all-nighters as an M&A lawyer inspired him to launch a data solution for all those hundreds of legal documents that always seem to need a last minute change.
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Monday Mar 08, 2021
This week our hosts snack and chat with Ed Lea, CTO of Charge Fairy, whose mission is to get easy access to electric vehicle charging. Ed chats about how he started out building apps, creating a mobile employee engagement platform which led to a joint venture with Ceridian's LifeWorks business. Having conquered employee well-being, Ed is now focused on the planet's well-being. He wants to make it easy and convenient for people to charge their electric vehicles - no matter where they are.
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Monday Feb 22, 2021
We are joined this week by a more professional snacker, Justin Gayner. He explains how, after a disappointing encounter at Oddbins, he relaunched his career. He ended up hosting his very own snack-themed YouTube show, before successfully launching the History Hit network, which was acquired by Little Dot Studies in 2020.
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Our guest this week is Douglas Brown, who sold his business Star Net Geomatics to an international buyer. He discusses the journey to successfully sell his business, which included a 3.5 hour car ride in the middle of the night with his lawyer and adviser.
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
A festive special full of seasonal snacks and surprise guests!
Music: Christmas Spirit by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
Christmas Spirit is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com.
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
This week our intrepid hosts chat with Alex Hawes from Risk Capital Advisors, who explains all about M&A insurance, warranties, indemnities and mitigating risks involved in M&A transactions. He also manages to deflate our podcast hosts' egos by inviting some slightly better known podcasters to dinner in the rapid fire round.