In this video, you will learn how Marty Balkema and David Horne of Calm Capital created a profitable and scalable holding company. In this video, you will learn:
1. How David and Marty created and designed a profitable and scalable holding company
2. How to find the right partners
3. What type of acquisitions to make
4. How to grow your business
Show Notes:
00:00 Intro to David and Marty
00:36 First Meeting of the Minds
05:36 The shared values required to become business partners
10:53 Bringing the companies into holding company
13:02 Equal Majority interest & Investors
20:11 Assembling a portfolio of unrelated companies
24:03 Working above the business - how to hire your replacements
33:00 Hiring and firing CEOs
36:02 Fears/challenges they overcame - financing it not a problem
42:45 Rev size ARR of businesses they target
45:08 How their mentors think about SaaS multiples
48:41 Their biggest obstacle/challenge - being operator to investor - multipliers
51:58 What did you learn about yourself - thinking slower, downtime & partners
Links
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martybalkema/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidnc/
https://www.calmcapital.com/
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