{"podcast":{"title":"Buyers and Builders","slug":"buyers-and-builders-7306773","podcast_index_feed_id":7306773,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2489308.rss","website_url":"https://twitter.com/PrivatEquityGuy","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/jusec80p7584cp7kbglt9x9cofeq?.jpg","author":"PrivateEquityGuy","episode_count":171,"summary":"The Buyers and Builders podcast with PrivateEquityGuy is a place where you can find meaningful conversations about holding companies, buying and building businesses, entrepreneurship, investing, and more. Be sure to follow the podcast, so you never miss an episode!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T00:22:19.965446+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/buyers-and-builders-7306773"},"episode":{"title":"From Management Buyout to Fund of Funds | P. V. Ramanathan (Ram) Interview","slug":"from-management-buyout-to-fund-of-funds-p-v-ramanathan-ram-interview","published_at":"2026-04-05T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/buyers-and-builders-7306773/from-management-buyout-to-fund-of-funds-p-v-ramanathan-ram-interview","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/buyers-and-builders-7306773","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2489308/episodes/18964626-from-management-buyout-to-fund-of-funds-p-v-ramanathan-ram-interview.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2489308/episodes/18964626-from-management-buyout-to-fund-of-funds-p-v-ramanathan-ram-interview.mp3","summary":"In this episode, I sit down with P.V. Ramanathan, or Ram, to unpack the story of how he helped lead a management buyout of a struggling cathodic protection business in 2003 and turned it into Corrosion Technology Services ( https://ctscp.com/ ). Himself local to Dubai, Ram's company, CTS, includes 10 companies operating across 8 countries and 3 regions. The free cash flow generation gave Ram the ability to build Neeti Fund, a fund-of-funds built around a simple but highly selective strategy:...","meta_description":"In this episode, I sit down with P.V. Ramanathan, or Ram, to unpack the story of how he helped lead a management buyout of a struggling cathodic protectio…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4416,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/buyers-and-builders-7306773/episodes/from-management-buyout-to-fund-of-funds-p-v-ramanathan-ram-interview/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/buyers-and-builders-7306773/from-management-buyout-to-fund-of-funds-p-v-ramanathan-ram-interview.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}