Jason Budd acquired a 45-year-old software company last year, right as Covid hit. He was a self-funded searcher who had worked in corporate for years, but he saw the moment in his career when it felt right to take a leap and work for himself. You'll hear me get excited when he talks about someone influential in his life sending him a podcast about buying businesses, and how listening to that podcast really opened his eyes and sort of set him on the path. No, it wasn't Acquiring Minds — that was before this pod existed. But still, hopefully Acquiring Minds will serve the same purpose in somebody else's life. Anyway, that anecdote and the rest of the story with Jason Budd.