400 businesses, how do you, like how?

Yeah, so, well I started off as a Wall Street guy,

so I left college in my 20s,

went to work for an investment bank,

so learned how to buy and sell companies

using other people's money on Wall Street and then in

corporate. I retired 2008 when I was 37 lasted about three weeks.

And then thought well hang on a minute I got this skill set and I had to raise money and I had to do deals so I started buying my own companies

still doing that today I own a big private equity fund doing a couple of billion dollar

roll-ups one in health and wellness for women, the other in online

digital coaching, and then I have the privilege of mentoring about 20,000 entrepreneurs all over the world who are looking to get out of

W-2s or the real estate investors and they want to pivot and hedge and do business

deals as well.

Mm- super interesting so I mean first off you say you know billion-dollar roll-ups in private equity

where do you raise that kind of capital from? Yeah so there's lots of different

places you can go to family offices which is kind of quite a new

concept 20-25 years ago you know there wasn't family offices when when you're

buying businesses you're you're funding it with three different things. One is equity, so you did a little bit of equity.

That's where you'll go to a family office or an angel investor or a hedge fund or a private equity fund.

And then once you've got a little bit of equity, you can five to ten X that capital with debt financing. So there's trillions of dollars of debt that you can borrow from banks and other institutions and pension funds and all these different

places. And then you can also buy businesses all or in part and you can buy it like you would

lease a car. So you know if you want to buy a Tesla, right? You can go and drop 60 grand on a Tesla or you can go down and pay 600 bucks a month. We've mastered the way of doing that with business deals. So if you find the right

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