Episodes

The Think Like an Owner podcast seeks out conversations with small company owners and investors to learn how to acquire and run small companies, with a focus on search funds, micro private equity, and permanent capital.

Episode 219

Craig Fuller – On The Intersection of Media and Data [Replay] Ep.219

FreightWaves, founded in 2016, is a media and data company focused on trucking, freight, supply chains, and all things logistics.

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Episode 218

Henry Schuck – Creating Ambitious Teams at ZoomInfo – EP.218

My guest today is Henry Schuck, founder and CEO at ZoomInfo, one of the most successful data businesses in recent times with a market cap today around $12B.

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Episode 217

Mike Stone – Growing a $1B+ Painting Company – Ep.217

My guest today is Mike Stone, CEO of CertaPro Painters, the largest painting company in North America structured as a franchise with 370 owners across 500 territories and over $700m in revenue.

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Episode 215

Ayman Al-Abdullah – How Companies Scale to $100M and Beyond – Ep.215

My guest today is Ayman Al-Abdullah, former CEO of Appsumo and now executive coach to other ambitious CEOs looking to scale 7 and 8-figure businesses past $100m, Ayman’s specialty.

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Episode 214

Dennis Dresser – High Performing SaaS Sales Orgs – Ep.214

Dennis was a sales leader at IBM and Oracle and became CRO at Anaplan and Dialpad before taking on an advisory role with companies looking to develop best-in-class sales organizations.

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Episode 213

Transforming Data at Coalesce – Armon Petrossian – Ep.213

My guest today is Armon Petrossian, co-founder and CEO of data transformation company Coalesce, built on Snowflake’s ecosystem.

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Episode 211

Eric Jorgenson – The Power of Writing Books – Ep.211

Eric is the CEO of Scribe media as well as author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and The Anthology of Balaji. He also hosts the Smart Friends Podcast.

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Episode 210

Studying CEO’s, Data Businesses, and Chief of Staff Roles – Alex Bridgeman and Chris Powers Ep,210

This week, we are running the episode I did with Chris Powers on the Fort podcast where I was a guest on that show, and in this episode, we talked all about my background, my interest in data, the podcast, and more.

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Episode 209

Roland Lessard – The M&A Value Creation Playbook – Ep.209

This episode is all about M&A and corporate development, both for companies doing occasional M&A and those with more programmatic strategies, which is where Roland is spending most of his town now as an advisor to CEOs.

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Episode 208

[Re-Run] Richard Reese – Designing Incentives at Iron Mountain – Ep.208

My guest on this episode is Richard Reese. Richard took over as CEO of Iron Mountain, a physical records management business, in 1981. He ran the business as CEO through going public in 1996 before retiring from the role in 2013.

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