For nine months, Buyout Diary has been a newsletter. One argument, made every Monday: the American playbook for buying a business does not transfer cleanly to Europe, and the searcher who imports it unchanged pays for it.
The podcast is the next part of that project
Writing about European acquisition entrepreneurship can only go so far. At some point the people doing the work need to speak for themselves. The searcher who closed a deal in the Benelux. The investor deciding which searchers to back. The operator running a business they bought two years ago and learned to lead the hard way.
That is what this is. Long-form conversations with searchers, investors, and operators from across the Benelux, France, the UK, German, Spain, and beyond. Honest, on the record, about what worked, what broke, and what they would do differently.
Watch it on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Same conversations, your choice of format.
What you get (three scannable lines, placed just above the form)
- First access to every episode, before it goes public
- Named European operators and investors, real deals, honest detail
- One email when it launches, nothing in between