Today's guest, Jessica Markowitz, is my first interview with an acquisition entrepreneur who did a traditional search fund. Which surprised me that it took me 30 episodes to put a traditional search funder in the hot seat. But worth the wait. This interview with Jessica really opened my eyes to what a traditional search looks like. If you're unfamiliar with what a traditional search fund is, it often entails a much longer search process because, among other reasons, you're looking for a larger business to buy, and there are just fewer of those. Across the two years it took Jessica and her partner to find the company they bought, they worked with 40 interns to help them conduct the search. We get into those details and many more about Jessica's journey to find and acquire and then grow Paragon Legal. Here's the story of Jessica Markowitz buying Paragon Legal.