Navigating Business Acquisition w/Jarryd Osborne - From College Athlete to Private Equity

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5.0 • 132 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Jarryd Osborne, a former college athlete and corporate manager, embarks on a risky journey to build wealth through entrepreneurship, but quickly learns the struggles of navigating the competitive SMB acquisition world with his partner Walter Thurmond III. He is the co-founder of Diversity Capital Group, a private equity fund that focuses on managed service providers and "boring" businesses.You will learn:1.Exploring Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition: Discover the process of leveraging an SBA loan to buy a business and the current trend of baby boomers exiting their businesses.2.Team Player Mindset: Understand how to apply the individual sport mentality of tennis to the corporate world.3.Driving Diversity and Inclusion: Uncover the mission to inspire minorities to pursue entrepreneurship and acquire businesses, even without a Harvard degree or rich parents.We're happy you're here! Like the pod? Visit our website! Check out our sponsor PitchDB! Start your trial on Simplified!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Your Brand Amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and
0:06.5	brands to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a difference. Welcome to your brand Amplified.
0:14.0	I'm Anika Jackson, and I'm so thrilled to be here today
0:17.0	with Jared Osborne.
0:19.0	Now, Jared and I have...
0:21.0	Gosh, we met six, seven years ago when we both lived in Texas somehow we both
0:26.3	ended up a few blocks away in California and it's really fantastic to have
0:32.0	reconnected and be working on some business together.
0:34.7	So Jared, thank you so much for being here.
0:36.8	Thank you as well. Yeah, what irony that we ended up being a few blocks across the country from each other.
0:43.4	Yeah, crazy.
0:44.8	So please tell us a little bit about your background and your journey to entrepreneurship.
0:49.8	Absolutely.
0:51.8	So yeah, in my corporate world, I spent about eight to ten years.
0:57.6	Sometimes I forget in technology as a project manager, working for smaller startup companies,
1:05.8	anywhere from, to big major corporations,
1:09.9	working for Hilton, Marriott. A lot of data management, data integration type projects,
1:17.2	transitioning firms, if you will, to the cloud,
1:25.0	SAS type software programs. And so I've always played the middleman between the client and then developer,
1:32.0	right, and what we're building.
1:34.5	So, and then fast forward to kind of now,
1:40.6	well, I'll actually take one step back. I was actually a big part of my life which I can't
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