{"podcast":{"title":"The Buyout Show with Fexingo: Private Equity, Roll-Ups, and Business Acquisitions","slug":"the-buyout-show-with-fexingo-private-equity-roll-ups-and-business-acquisitions-7871630","podcast_index_feed_id":7871630,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/the-buyout-show.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-buyout-show/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":122,"summary":"Lucas and Luna examine private equity through the lens of actual deals — roll-ups in HVAC, veterinary clinics, and funeral services; buy-and-build strategies; and the mechanics of leveraged buyouts. Each episode dissects a specific transaction, from sourcing to exit, using real numbers, term sheets, and public filings. The show serves founders weighing an offer, analysts building models, and investors tracking the industry. Expect critical discussions on valuation multiples, earnouts, debt covenants, and the cultural friction between PE operators and portfolio-company management. Lucas, a journalist with a decade covering dealmaking, guides the numbers; Luna, an engaged interlocutor, presses on execution risk and founder psychology. Together they ask: What separates a value-destroying roll-up from a platform that compounds for a decade? No hype, no jargon — just the tradecraft of buying and scaling businesses. #PrivateEquity #LBO #RollUp #BuyAndBuild #PE #DueDiligence #Valuation #MergersAndAcquisitions #FamilyBusinessExit #SearchFund #EBITDA #DealSourcing #SMB #BusinessAcquisition #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Finance #Podcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T04:18:12.773861+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-buyout-show-with-fexingo-private-equity-roll-ups-and-business-acquisitions-7871630"},"episode":{"title":"How Private Equity Is Consolidating the Landscaping Industry","slug":"how-private-equity-is-consolidating-the-landscaping-industry","published_at":"2026-06-10T04:32:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-buyout-show-with-fexingo-private-equity-roll-ups-and-business-acquisitions-7871630/how-private-equity-is-consolidating-the-landscaping-industry","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-buyout-show-with-fexingo-private-equity-roll-ups-and-business-acquisitions-7871630","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-buyout-show/episode-0042.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-buyout-show/episode-0042.mp3","summary":"Private equity has rolled up everything from dental clinics to data brokers. This episode: why landscaping is the next frontier. Lucas walks through the economic logic — recurring revenue, low churn, fragmented mom-and-pop operators — and Luna pushes back on the human cost. They zero in on BrightView Holdings, the giant born from a 2014 merger of ValleyCrest and Brickman, now controlling roughly 15 percent of the $130 billion commercial landscaping market. But the real story is the middle: the family-owned firms that sell for four to six times EBITDA and the regional consolidators like Yellowstone Landscape that are using PE money to buy ten companies a year. Lucas breaks the math on a typical acquisition — a $5 million EBITDA firm, bought for $25 million, levered 4x, targeting a 20 percent IRR. Luna questions whether service quality holds up when route managers are replaced by spreadsheet optimizers. The episode closes on a question: at what point does a roll-up become a monopoly risk? #PrivateEquity #RollUp #Landscaping #BrightView #YellowstoneLandscape #ValleyCrest #Brickman #CommercialLandscaping #EBITDA #Leverage #Consolidation #FragmentedIndustry #MonopolyRisk #LawnCare #Business #Finance #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Private equity has rolled up everything from dental clinics to data brokers. This episode: why landscaping is the next frontier. Lucas walks through the e…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":490,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-buyout-show-with-fexingo-private-equity-roll-ups-and-business-acquisitions-7871630/episodes/how-private-equity-is-consolidating-the-landscaping-industry/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-buyout-show-with-fexingo-private-equity-roll-ups-and-business-acquisitions-7871630/how-private-equity-is-consolidating-the-landscaping-industry.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}