Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: Want to get your business in front of my audience? This soy sauce empire started 400+ years ago Building a hotel empire ๐Market your business to Sieva's Business Business Academy audience We began testing with our first advertisers last year, and it turns out this community is incredibly engaged. With 70,000 operators, investors, and "acquisition curious" reading this letter each week, we...
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Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: Want to get your business in front of my audience? This company started 355 years ago - here's what killed it How to build a hotel empire ๐Market your business to Sieva's Business Business Academy audience We began testing with our first advertisers last year, and it turns out this community is incredibly engaged. With 70,000 operators, investors, and "acquisition curious" reading this...
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Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: Want to get your business in front of my audience? He combined 2 failing businesses. Here's what happened. How to do $400 million a year in revenue ๐Market your business to Sieva's Business Business Academy audience We began testing with our first advertisers last year, and it turns out this community is incredibly engaged. With 70,000 operators, investors, and "acquisition curious" reading...
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Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: Want to get your business in front of my audience? He built a $63 billion playbook Copy this playbook for buying $2 billion in businesses ๐Market your business to Sieva's Business Business Academy audience We began testing with our first advertisers last year, and it turns out this community is incredibly engaged. With 70,000 operators, investors, and "acquisition curious" reading this...
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Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: Want to get your business in front of my audience? 3 family-owned businesses that sold to PE He raised $2 billion to buy boring businesses ๐Market your business to Sieva's Business Business Academy audience We began testing with our first advertisers last year, and it turns out this community is incredibly engaged. With 70,000 operators, investors, and "acquisition curious" reading this...
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Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: Want to get your business in front of my audience? No one else could figure out this business. But KKR made a 10x return on it How to build a home service empire ๐Market your business to Sieva's Business Business Academy audience We began testing with our first advertisers last year, and it turns out this community is incredibly engaged. With 70,000 operators, investors, and "acquisition...
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Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: A $15 million investment turned into a $1.2 billion payday He 24x'd his investment buying a flooring company ๐ How to buy a Railroad for $15 million - and sell it for $1.2 billion I write a lot about Warren Buffett and his legendary investments in this newsletter. But today, I'm going to cover a Berkshire acquisition that Buffett wasn't involved in. Let's dive into the deal Berkshire...
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Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: Ford's Deal to Buy Ferrari - What Went Wrong He Bought a Pallet of Watches and Turned it into $2.4 Million ๐ Their deal fell apart - so they decided to build instead In 1963, Ford Motor Company attempted to acquire the iconic Italian car maker Ferrari. But the deal eventually fell apart. The story sparked one of racing's greatest rivalries, and a 2019 blockbuster movie, Ford v. Ferrari. For...
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Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: They bought a business in 2008 just before the crash, but still made ~$1 billion How to buy an accounting business (without being an accountant) ๐ Making ~$1 billion buying a business in 2008 Imagine buying a business in February 2008, just months before the global economy melted down. Anyone who did that must have lost a fortune, right? Not in this case. Today we are looking at the deal...
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