Business Buying Strategies Podcast #157

Now whenever I meet or talk with regular listeners to the show, most tell me how much they love – and how useful they find – the episodes where I talk in depth with a single dealmaker about the acquisitions they have made.

I’m pleased to hear this – because I love them too! And from time to time, I meet dealmakers who have so much energy, and who are so keen to get started, that I want to bottle their enthusiasm and vitality and sell it!

This week, I want to listen again to one such dealmaker, who was a guest on the podcast at the beginning of last year. His name is John Graves, and having decided to focus on acquiring distressed businesses, he bought his first company – a hotel and golf club in receivership – in a deal that took just seven days to complete.