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The Deal Table

Harper Belmont Media | Optima Mergers and Acquisitions

The Deal Table is a long-form podcast featuring the founders, operators, investors, and advisors who navigate consequential decisions around capital, control, leadership, and legacy.Filmed at Old Parkland in Dallas, the show brings together leaders who have built, financed, governed, acquired, and exited real businesses to speak candidly about private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and what actually happens before, during, and after the deal.For founders, executives, investors, and advisors making decisions Sponsored by: Capital Southwest, Security National Bank, IMA & Blockchain.com

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58 episodes

  1. #58 | Kelly Ann Winget: Bought an $11M Ammo Company for $0 1:19:34
  2. #57 | Margot Carter: Sold to Blackstone the Morning of the IPO 1:01:44
  3. #56 Rep. Beth Van Duyne | Mayors Move the Economy. Congress Sets the Rules. 1:07:51
  4. #55 Jonathan Lusk | 99.9% of Ranches Are in the Red 1:08:24
  5. #54 Donna Letier | The Gardening Company Insurance Will Pay For 1:02:51
  6. #53 Bill Rowe: There Are More PE Jobs Than Proven Operators 1:19:55
  7. #52 Alex Danza, Vonlane: They Said Nobody Would Pay $99 to Ride a Bus 1:21:56
  8. #51 Allen West | Our P&L Statement Was in Lives 1:20:31
  9. #50 George Baker | Private Equity Rarely Loses 1:07:26
  10. #49 Edward Crawford and Ralph Manning, Coltala Holdings: $400M, 24 Deals 1:18:38
  11. #48 Jennifer Chandler | Spanish Teacher to $86 Billion 1:03:55
  12. #47 | Rex Kurzius: Google's AI Answers Killed 80% of Our Clicks 1:13:06
  13. #46 | Tony Bridwell: Why Culture Never Shows Up in Due Diligence 1:24:25
  14. #45 | David Henry: From Radio Sales to $20 Million Jets 1:06:34
  15. #44 | Kneeland Youngblood: What to Ask When a President Walks In 1:35:25
  16. #43 | Ken Malcolmson: Dallas Passes Chicago as No. 3 Metro by 2030 1:02:41
  17. #42 | Thomas Gleason: Buying an 1889 Boot Company 1:08:23
  18. #41 | Jay Young: Singles and Doubles Beat Home Runs in Oil 1:11:15
  19. #40 | Preston Dunlap: How Starlink Got Into the Pentagon 58:00
  20. #39 | Randall Bryant: 120 Days to Save DART and Its 13 Cities 1:13:13
  21. #38 | Chris Fisher: Rock Bottom to 58 Peaks in 72 Days 1:13:22
  22. #37 | Rogers Healy: You Were Seven Minutes Late and Pitching Me 1:08:42
  23. #36 | George Killebrew: From 11 Wins to a $4 Billion Franchise 1:01:32
  24. #35 | Katherine Monson: A Solar Storm Cost SpaceX $500 Million 1:01:46
  25. #34 | Wyatt Smith: 50 Trucks in the Field, One Laptop to Run It 1:07:33
  26. #33 | Todd Milbourn: The ACC Move Drove a 64% Application Spike at SMU 1:09:49
  27. #32 | Scott Theeringer: 1,200 People a Day Move to North Texas 1:03:31
  28. #31 | JJ Barto: A $14.73 Check Almost Ended the Whole Deal 1:06:27
  29. #30 | Dan Hunt: We Owned the Bulls and Never Met Michael Jordan 1:05:48
  30. #29 | John Willding: Founders Bring a Knife to a Gunfight 1:19:56
  31. #28 | Buddy Ozanne: The Three Kinds of Capital You Can Inherit 1:03:48
  32. #27 | Jason Downie & Edward Herring: Institutional Capital Left Energy. We Stayed. 1:19:48
  33. #26 | The D.O.C.: 35 Years Without My Voice, and AI Found It 1:03:14
  34. #25 | Nicole Chambers: Texas Is Building a New Stock Exchange 1:01:32
  35. #24 | Ken Hersh: $20B in Energy, and Why Yellow Lights Stay Yellow 59:40
  36. #23 | Michael Sarner: Made $100 Million in Plumbing Supplies 1:14:34
  37. #22 | Lane Kasselman: AI Agents Will Pay in Crypto 1:05:55
  38. #21 | Troy Eckard: Lost 85% of Net Worth in Six Months 1:18:55
  39. #20 | Brint Ryan: Work-Life Balance Is a False Narrative 1:08:43
  40. #19 | Alex Farahmand: A Hot-Glued Prototype Became an FDA Device 1:11:23
  41. #18 | Tom Leppert: How Dallas Turned $5M into AT&T's Headquarters 1:26:19
  42. #17 | Chris Gannett: Ran Marketing for Elvis and American Idol 1:21:14
  43. #16 | Jimmy Tran: Led $2B in M&A and Tripled CBRE's Earnings 1:08:29
  44. #15 | Scott Harper: Started With $50. IBM Bought Us in 2022. 1:01:25
  45. #14 | John Donovan: Quantum Will Decrypt Everything Already Stolen 1:19:12
  46. #13 | Leib Bolel: From Rabbinical School to Venture Capital 1:08:16
  47. #12 | Eric Bennett: He Managed $10B. Now He Funds Brain Science. 1:15:15
  48. #11 | Mara McNeill: How I Took a Bank From $1B to $6B in 4 Years 1:14:49
  49. #10 | Victor Vescovo: We Warned OceanGate They Would Kill People 1:15:17
  50. #9 | Suresh Narayanan: I Picked Aviation's Least Glamorous Job 1:13:58