What up BNOS peeps,
When all else fails, find heaven under your mother's feet. Our guest Kison Patel hit rock bottom and did just that with his mom - which then propelled him into the world of Subway sandwich franchises, then business brokerage, and finally becoming and M&A pro.
Kison slapped us with a bad ass line: "Disrupt yourself or die." Though I personally practice that, I'm not gonna lie: sometimes I rather DIE! This dude Kison disrupts himself errryday - he now runs his own software company that makes M&A deals way more efficient (Founder and CEO of DealRoom & host of the podcast "M&A Science")
Kison & I exchanged brown kids war stories - he grew up running motels, I grew up fighting white power crazies at my uncle's gas station. Welcome to America! In the end, we both came out waaay stronger for it. Bottom line: owner's mentality is priceless.
We finally broke down M&A - mergers & acquisitions - wtf are they REALLY? Why's xerox buying HP? Why'd Facebook buy IG? Amazon & Zappos?? Kison's looked at all these with intense detail. Tune in to laugh & learn y'all!
Peace.
- Amer
SHOW NOTES
03:58 Passion: Design
10:55 Agile Mergers and Acquisitions
12:50 Finance Rewards Inefficiencies, Corporate Development
15:30 Amazon Buying Companies
19:03 Disrupt Yourself or Die
20:25 Kison Patel
21:33 Growing Up in Nebraska
22:25 Amer Working at a Gas Station
25:32 High School/Immigrant Parents
32:00 Owner's Mentality
38:36 Kison’s Path Into M&A
39:20 Amer's Parents
43:02 Getting Kicked Out of College
44:05 Working at Subway
46:45 Excelling at What You're Doing
51:20 Having a Vision
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