Leaders of Growth
Leaders of Growth is the first podcast that helps B2B SaaS companies scale to $25M ARR and beyond. Arthur Nobel from Knight Capital brings insights from SaaS thought leaders, founders, and experts from fast-growing software companies to help you grow your business. Each episode covers different startup challenges, such as scaling teams, Go-to-Market, and the changing role of the founder in a growing organization. Leaders of Growth is brought to you by Knight Capital.๐๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐ค ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ง๐ต๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ด๐ช๐ป๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐น๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ 4-6 ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด. ๐๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ค๐ถ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ต๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ด ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ค๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด.For more information, visit our website at knight.capital
Leaders of Growth
#35 Do's and Don'ts When Selling and Acquiring SaaS Companies, with Thomas Smale
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Arthur Nobel
In todayโs episode, Arthur discusses M&A with Thomas Smale. Thomas is the CEO of FE International, an award-winning global M&A advisor of SaaS, e-commerce, and content businesses that has completed over 1000 acquisitions. Thomas began building and selling online companies in his early 20s and now has over a decade of experience in the SaaS Space.
In this episode of Leaders of Growth, we cover:
5:00 The acquisition process
11.20 Do's and don'ts of the acquisition process
13:40 Strategic acquires vs PE acquisitions
20:00 Deal Structures
27:00 Drivers in exit valuations
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