38 Acquisitions Generating $2 Billion in Revenue | Eric Wiklendt Interview

About this episode

Mike Markus interviews Eric Wiklendt about his journey and the operations of Speyside Equity in the private equity sector.

Mike Markus ( ⁠https://x.com/PrivatEquityGuy ) talks with Eric Wiklendt of Speyside Equity ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericwiklendt/ ) about Eric's journey and how Speyside has built a highly operational lower-middle-market private equity firm with $937 million of assets under management, 38 total investments, 20 platform investments, operations across 19 countries, and portfolio companies generating approximately $2 billion in revenue. Timestamps: 0:00 Why Eric loves messy manufacturing d...

People in this episode

Host: Mike Markus

Guest: Eric Wiklendt

Topics covered

• private equity
• investments
• manufacturing
• lower-middle-market
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• private equity
• investments
• revenue
• manufacturing
• Speyside Equity
• Eric Wiklendt
• lower-middle-market

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Speyside Equity

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