Episodes: 160
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Male
Listener location: USA
YouTube: 4.7k subscribers
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Roy Redd - M&A strategist focused on business acquisitions, operational growth, company valuation, and exits.
Charles Oglesby - Business acquisition and M&A commentator who co-hosts analysis of transactions, financing, and lower-middle-market deal strategy.
Richard Parker - Seller Financing Versus SBA Debt, Business Valuation, Due Diligence, Acquisition Risk, Buyer Discipline, And The Differences Between Listings And Profitable Businesses.
$110 Billion Hollywood Takeover Explained: Who Overpaid, Who Got Paid, and the AI Cash Burn
October 07, 2026
This week three buyers wrote checks most of us will never see, and every one of them ran the same playbook you use on a $3 million deal. Charles and I take apart Paramount closing its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, Schneider Electric agreeing to pay a 42 percent premium for industrial software company PTC, and Clayton, Dubilier and Rice teaming up with McKesson to take Option Care Health private in a 51 to 49 split. Then we get into OpenAI's projected cash burn through 2...
Anthropic IPO: The $518 Billion Bill Behind the $2 Trillion Valuation
October 02, 2026
Anthropic wants to go public at a reported valuation above $2 trillion. According to its IPO prospectus as reviewed by Reuters, it lost about $42 billion last year, and roughly $34 billion of that was a non-cash accounting charge. The number I care about is different. Reuters reports at least $518 billion in cloud, compute, and infrastructure commitments, and about 80 percent of it is owed whether the compute gets used or not. That is not spending. That is a lease.Charles Oglesby and I underw...
The Warner Bros Deal: The $7 Million a Day CLock That Forced a Settlement
September 24, 2026
The Paramount Warner Bros deal just cleared its biggest obstacle nine days before a $7 million a day ticking fee was set to start. Charles Oglesby and I break down why that timing matters and what it teaches you about buying a business at any size.Paramount beat Netflix for Warner Bros Discovery with $31 a share in cash, a $7 billion regulatory termination fee, and a promise to cover the Netflix breakup fee. Sellers price certainty, not just the headline number. Then 12 state attorneys genera...
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