CHAPTERS Group - Building Europe's Next Software Champion - [Joys of Compounding, EP.31]

About this episode

Jan Mohr discusses Chapters Group's journey and ambitions in the software industry and the impact of AI on their business.

Our teacher today is Jan Mohr, CEO of Chapters Group, a publicly traded serial acquisition holding company with ambitions of becoming one of Europe's technology champions. Chapters' origins date back to a small software startup founded near Frankfurt in 1998. Twenty years later, the core business was sold to a strategic buyer, consolidating the market with the proceeds of the sale in 2018. With Jan's influence, the company embarked on a new chapter, pivoting to build the preferred home for mission-critical businesses across the old continent. Over the last five years, they have been on an absolute tear, having founded four distinct acquisition platforms that collectively acquired around 60 operating companies, demonstrated the ability to build a prolific M&A machine, while also improving the operations of the companies they acquire. Virtually every company in the world today is, on some level, thinking about AI in terms of threats, opportunities, and implications for their business. Perhaps nowhere is that discourse more animated right now than in the software industry. And as you'll hear from Jan, AI's potential to be a transformative force driving not only efficiencies, but…

People in this episode

Guest: Jan Mohr

Topics covered

• software industry
• M&A
• AI
• business strategy
• technology

Keywords

• Chapters Group
• Jan Mohr
• software champion
• M&A machine
• AI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chapters Group

Places: Frankfurt, Europe

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