The Private Equity Playbook with Adam Coffey | CEO of Multiple Private Equity-Backed Companies

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Show notes Adam Coffey

CEO, Board Member, Best-Selling Author, and Acclaimed International Speaker, Adam Coffey is a visionary leader who drives transformative growth and fosters high-performance cultures.

With 21+ years of experience as CEO, Adam led three national private equity-backed service companies for 9 private equity sponsors. During this time period he completed 58 acquisitions, his track record includes notable outcomes measured in the billions, averaging 5x MOIC at exit.

Adam is a respected mentor to MBA candidates and a sought-after speaker at UCLA. He brings diverse expertise from commercial and industrial service businesses, alongside being a licensed general contractor, pilot, former GE executive, and US Army veteran.

As an author, Adam's books "The Private Equity Playbook" and "The Exit Strategy Playbook" became #1 Amazon Best Sellers. Recognized as one of the "Most Influential Leaders" by the Orange County Business Journal, he founded the CEO Advisory Guru in 2021, providing consulting services to private equity firms, their portfolio companies and to founders.

Adam's impactful seminars have generated millions in revenue, solidifying his position as one of the world's top speakers. He resides in Westlake, TX, with his family.

We talk about:
- How should one go about evaluating Private Equity groups when looking to be acquired?
- What are the roles of consultants in a Private Equity Deal?
- What is rolling over equity in a transaction and how that can become a residual income streams?
- There are many mastermind groups here in Silicon Valley, what should one look for when they are thinking of joining one?
- How did Adam get the nickname “The Chairman”?

And much more…

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[greenengka]

Never get bored hearing Adam talk about business, learn and remind another point. Thanks Adam

[jeffreddin]

Teach is reach, the three stages of growth from entrepreneur to leading your market and the scales, being letting the small be the all.seeing the value of staff and there growth and potential/investment.on a recap on turning you journey into a billion dollar company from companies it falls back to relationships/arranged marriages, loyalty, integrity, honour, Focus discipline and commitment .as for trade creating the smALL creates the ALL /singularity within it .The ChairMaN to the MaN-age-ment beautiful concepts and content from this platform .people of the same vibration truly, Thanks Adam, wow

[PeterDavidConnor-uicy]

Fantastic filled with golden nuggets for business owners and entrepreneurs on how to get the best and give the best by looking after people, creating a culture that fosters a loyal workforce, team, clients/customers, thank you Adam 💎🔥👌

[uhzywbc]

Great energy, great questions, great content. Thanks!

[ArtAleman]

Amazing 🤩 thank you for the info and will definitely get Adam’s books thx

[InFaMouSxKP]

Buying the book now, thank you for this! 📚

[freerangemarketers]

How does this only have 4k views? Great podcast!

[kalebbillig]

Okay so say you buy 5 companies making $1, 000, 000 each in earnings and you pay 5x earnings for each one… that’s 25, 000, 000 and earnings are 5, 000, 000… and then Adam says he sells for 14x earnings… but is 5, 000, 000 in earnings enough to sell at 14x earnings or does it need to be over 10, 000, 000 in earnings AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, Who is the buyer at 14x earnings?

Given the first example of 5, 000, 000 in earnings after rolling up 5 companies (just for example say we don’t increase earnings at all) and it costs us 25, 000, 000 and then we sell for 14x that is 70, 000, 000 leaving you with 45, 000, 000 in profit just for combining 5 companies? Or maybe it needs to be 10 companies so double the story… is it really that easy to go from 5x earnings valuation to 14x earnings valuation???

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