How to Scale and Exit Your Business (Brian Franco)
The Home Service Expert Podcast
Tommy Mello
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Brian Franco is a visionary entrepreneur, dealmaker, and private equity investor widely known as "The M&A Guy." He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Meritage Partners, where he has spent over two decades guiding founders, private equity groups, and strategic acquirers through transformative mergers and acquisitions—helping generate billions in successful exits.
Brian is the author of Inevitable Exit, a definitive guide to business succession, strategy, and legacy, and the creator of Empire Builder Studio, a platform focused on scaling companies and preparing them for liquidity events. He also hosts The M&A Guy Podcast, where he shares practical insights on valuation, growth, and exit readiness. Anchored by faith, family, and purpose, Brian blends disciplined execution with long-term vision to help leaders build enduring companies—and exits that truly matter.
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| 0:00.0 | We're all going to exit at some point, right? |
| 0:02.7 | The question is, is it going to be on your terms or somebody else's? |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome to the home service expert, built for blue collar entrepreneurs who are ready for more. |
| 0:13.0 | When your customer says yes, stop talking. |
| 0:16.5 | You find that the pursuit of a goal, at least for me, is a source of my happiness. |
| 0:22.2 | You're never going to successful doing what everyone else does. New episodes every Monday. |
| 0:28.6 | Before we get started, I wanted to share two important things with you. First, I want you to |
| 0:33.0 | implement what you learned today. To do that, you'll have to take a lot of notes, but I also want you to fully |
| 0:38.4 | concentrate on the interview. So I ask the team to take notes for you. Just text, |
| 0:43.7 | note, N-O-T-E-S, to 888-526-1299. That's 888-526-1299, and you'll receive a link to download the notes from today's episode. Also, |
| 0:57.9 | if you haven't got your copy of my newest book, Elevate, please go check it out. I'll share |
| 1:02.5 | with you how I attracted and developed a winning team that helped me build a $200 million |
| 1:06.2 | company in 22 states. Just go to elevate and win.com for slash podcast to get your copy. Now let's go |
| 1:13.1 | back into the interview. All right, guys, welcome back to the home service sector. Today I got an |
| 1:17.6 | awesome guest. His name is Brian Franco. He's an expert in PE, investment, business, succession, |
| 1:25.3 | strategy, the legacy. He's based out of Newport Beach. |
| 1:28.7 | Brian Franco is a visionary entrepreneur, dealmaker, and private equity investor, widely known as the M&A guy. |
| 1:34.7 | He is the founder and managing partner of Meredith's partners, who we have spent over two decades guiding founders, private equity groups, and strategic acquires through transformative mergers and acquisitions. |
| 1:44.9 | Helping generate billions and billions of successful exit. |
| 1:49.0 | Billion is the author of The Inevitable Exit, A Definite Guide to Business Succession, Strategy, and Legacy, |
| 1:54.4 | and the creator of Empire Builder Studio, a platform focused on scaling companies and prepping them for liquidity events. |
| 2:00.8 | He also hosts the M&A Guy podcast where he shares practical insights on valuation, growth, |
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