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 207

Savneet Singh – Leading a Public Turnaround at PAR Technology – Ep.207

My guest today is Savneet Signh, CEO of PAR Technology, a billion-dollar market cap publicly traded point of sale software business serving the restaurant industry.

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Episode 206

Tim Strickland – High Performing CROs and Designing Great Sales Orgs – Ep.206

Tim led during a massive growth period for ZoomInfo and had to learn how to rapidly scale sales teams both within ZoomInfo and incorporate go-to-market teams from acquired companies.

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Epiosode 205

Mike Wyman – The CFO Role in Search Funds – Ep.205

Mike Wyman brings over 30 years of experience in various CFO roles to this episode where we dive into the CFO role, especially in newly acquired businesses with limited financial infrastructure.

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Episode 204

Mike Zani – The Science of Transformative Teams – Ep.204

My guest today is Mike Zani, CEO of The Predictive Index, a talent optimization platform built around their nearly 70-year-old behavioral assessment tool.

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Epiosode 203

[Re-Run] David Dodson – The Manager’s Handbook – Ep.203

David is an investor, former CEO, professor at Stanford, and as of July 13th, 2023, an influential author having published his first book, The Manager’s Handbook.

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Episode 202

Scott Barstow – Keys to High Performing Product Teams – Ep.202

Scott has founded and led tech companies and teams throughout his career. He now supports the Pacific Lake portfolio as an operating partner focused on building great software product and engineering orgs.

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Episode 201

Gary Walter Jr – Scaling and Selling a Family Run Data Business – Ep.201

My guest on this episode is Gary Walter, Jr, who took over running Infutor, a consumer identity data business, as CEO after his father passed.

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Episode 200

Justin Mazeka Vogt – Compounding, Leverage, and Thinking Bigger – Ep.200

This is my 200th episode of Think Like an Owner, and I’ve invited my good friend Justin Mazeka Vogt on for the honors. Justin and his business partner Ed Redden were among the very first to reach out to me when I first started.

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Episode 199

Ann Rhoades – Building Values Driven Cultures That Outperform – EP.199

Ann was the VP of People at Southwest Airlines with founder Herb Kelleher and was a founding executive as VP of People, and eventually a board member of JetBlue Airways.

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Episode 198

Joel Peterson – Engineering a Remarkable Life -Ep.198

Joel is the founder and chairman of Peterson Partners, a private equity, venture, and search investment firm, and the former CEO of Trammell Crow.

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