How We Bought 160 Businesses and Built a $1.5B HoldCo at 33 and 35 | Ramsey Sahyoun of Evergreen

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Ramsey Sahyoun discusses the growth of Evergreen into a $1.5B HoldCo through strategic acquisitions.

Ramsey Sahyoun shares how Evergreen grew from a Berkshire-inspired idea into a $1.5B revenue, $250M EBITDA HoldCo with 160 acquisitions. We discuss proprietary sourcing, decentralization, talent, value creation, MSPs, and the lessons behind building one of America’s most interesting acquisition machines. Timestamps: 0:00 Evergreen’s scale and long-term hold model 2:06 Discovering private equity and buying private companies 4:14 Meeting Jeff Totten at Alpine Investors 5:53 Evergreen’s first ...

People in this episode

Host: PrivateEquityGuy

Guest: Ramsey Sahyoun

Topics covered

• acquisitions
• private equity
• business growth
• value creation
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• Evergreen
• acquisitions
• private equity
• Berkshire
• business model
• EBITDA
• entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Evergreen, Berkshire, Alpine Investors

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