
About this episode
Despite his love of operations, Himmat Singh intended to own his acquisition passively. Then the lead sales guy quit.
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Topics in Himmat’s interview:
- Operating a business for a billionaire in India
- Ran traditional search, closed zero acquisitions
- Targeted recession-proof home care opportunities
- Became CEO of elder care company he couldn’t acquire
- Grew EBITDA 4x through operational cleanup and systems
- Sold company to private equity, remaining CEO
- Life-changing exit from elder care company
- Landed printing acquisition through relationships
- Prefers operating to financial modeling
- Structuring a screaming deal on a printing business
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Edited by Anton Rohozov and produced by Pam Cameron
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