Adam Coffey is the founding partner of CEO Advisory Guru, LLC, Best-selling author of The Private Equity Playbook and The Exit-Strategy Playbook.
In this episode, Adam joins Nick to talk about how the world of private equity works, and how you can position your business to have a successful exit.
Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Many business owners use a magic hockey stick approach to valuation, indicating that upon their exit, the company will somehow produce record-beating results never seen before. The best way to demonstrate any success is to actually test the water.
- With 80% of all deals going to private equity, it’s more important than ever that we understand how that universe works, in order to maximise our own potential.
- Business owners focus their entire energies on building their company. That same level of dedication is needed when it comes time to exit.
- Private equity firms rely on investment bankers to sell their companies, managing competitive tension and the entire process. These bankers possess exclusive insights unknown to the general public.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I buy them, I put them together and I build empires’
‘Most private equity firms do a really bad job of laying out what the future will look like’
‘Think of all the effort that goes into building your business. You need to put some effort into selling your business as well’
‘Let me show you what I’ve built’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.
https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/
ABOUT THE GUEST
CEO, board member, best-selling author, Forbes Business Council member, and an acclaimed international speaker, Adam Coffey, is an inspiring and authentic leader who creates high-performance cultures and drives transformative growth.
Over the past 21 years, he has had the honor of serving as President and CEO of three national private equity-backed service companies, each in different industries. Two of the three companies he built achieved enterprise values of $1B. Over 58 acquisitions completed. Throughout his career, Coffey has a proven track record of achieving notable outcomes for stakeholders. His career average at exit is 5x MOIC (Multiple of Invested Capital).
www.AdamECoffey.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_E._Coffey
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamecoffey/
ABOUT THE HOST
Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.
His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.
His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.
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