Hello and welcome to the exit presented by a flipper I'm your co-host Steve McGarry

and this is a 30 minute podcast featuring amazing entrepreneurs who have been there and they

have done it. We talked to operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different

sizes. You'll learn how they did it, why they did it, and the exposure the world needs to see

with all the different aspects of exiting a business. So in this episode I sit down with Bart Mcdonald

the managing partner of Bloom Venture Partners. But before we get into this episode,

definitely be sure to check out the previous episode with Kellyanne from amazing access.

It's a fantastic interview and it's definitely worth checking out. So the link to all that will be

wherever you're listening to this episode. But for this episode we're sitting down with Bart Mcdonald

and we're going to be diving into SaaS businesses. We talk about everything around their sweet spot

of investing in businesses that are doing 500 to 5 million in annual recurring revenue

and the fact that their industry agnostic and geography agnostic. So wherever founders are,

they are definitely investing. And most importantly what we touch on is the fact that they are now

actually buying SaaS businesses. So they have some really exciting knowledge nuggets at the end

of the interview. So if you're really interested in SaaS businesses and potentially making even

a thousand dollars for referring a SaaS business to them, definitely stick around to the end of the

interview because Bart has some amazing knowledge to drop on everybody. So without further ado,

let's dive right into my interview with Bart Mcdonald the managing partner at Bloom Venture Partners.

All right. I am here with Bart Mcdonald the managing partner of Bloom Venture Partners. How

you doing today, Bart? Hey, David, really well. Thanks. It's up. Doing great. Doing great. I'm

excited to sit down and talk about subscription as a service. Yeah. So one of the things that we

like to do with guests is kind of go through an origin story like what what brought you into Bloom

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