Worth Owning

Somewhere between "I built this" and "I sold this" is a decade of decisions most founders get wrong. This is the show about those decisions. Worth Owning is the podcast that takes you inside the build and the deal. Scale stories from founders who turned owner-operated companies into assets. Exit stories from the ones who sold, and what they'd do differently. Deal room insights from the bankers, private equity buyers, and M&A advisors on the other side of the table. You'll hear from both sides. The founder who built it. The buyer who acquired it. And the uncomfortable truth about what actually makes a business valuable, transferable, and ready. Hosted by Krystyn and Matt Harrison, cofounders of Horizon Advisors, an advisory platform for owner-operators that pairs you with advisors who've built, scaled, and exited themselves. Horizon's advisors have had front row seats to over $1B in enterprise value. Now we're bringing the playbook to owner-operators b

Worth Owning is a business podcast hosted by Horizon Advisors, with 20 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Why Most CFOs Can't Survive Diligence (And Why 75% Of M&A Deals Die) | Susan Richards, Numbercrunch

  Apr 30, 202642 minS0

  <p>In this conversation, we get into the specific moves every founder needs to start making 36 months before a sale. We break down normalized EBITDA, and the add-back game buyers play in diligence. We get into fully-loaded CAC, unit economics by channel, and the Grow–Ramp–Scale framework for knowing when to level up your finance function. And we get into why 75% of M&A deals fall apart - and why the ones that close almost always share the same 36-month prep story.</p><p></p><p>What you'll learn:</p><p>00:00 - The million-dollar decisions founders make on gut feel...

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  Horizon LIVE: How to Sell Your Profitable Business | Jackie Dinsmore & Brent Holliday

  Apr 21, 202656 minS0

  <p>Most founders build profitable businesses. Very few build sellable ones. There's a massive difference, and it could cost you millions.<br /><br />In this first live recording of Inside M&A: Opening the Playbook, Krystyn Harrison (Co-Founder & CEO, Horizon Advisors) sits down with Jackie Dinsmore (Managing Partner, Caravel Law, 3x exited founder) and Brent Holliday (Founder & CEO, Garibaldi Capital Advisors) to break down what actually makes a business sellable, how valuations really work, what kills deals, and the exit timeline math every founder should know.<br /><br />Whether you're exploring your options or actively working toward an exit, this...

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  Why AI is Killing Your SaaS Moat (And Why a $20M Exit Beats $200M) | Josh Axler

  Apr 15, 202633 minS0

  <p>AI is rewriting the rules of what makes a software company fundable. Switching costs are dissolving. Code is getting cheaper to write. And the SaaS metrics that used to guarantee a term sheet? They're not enough anymore.</p><p></p><p>Josh Axler has deployed over $200 million into growth-stage companies as Managing Director at Flow Capital, a publicly traded alternative lender. He sits between venture capital and traditional banking, funding founders who want to scale without giving up ownership. He's reviewed thousands of data rooms, and the patterns he sees are changing fast.</p><p></p><p>In this...

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  The Pivot That Built a 4-Million-Member Fintech | Eva Wong, Co-Founder of Borrowell

  Apr 7, 202642 minS0

  <p>She didn't plan to be a founder. She was on mat leave with two kids when her future co-founder pitched her on what would become Borrowell — Canada's first free credit score platform with over 4 million members.</p><p></p><p>In this episode of Worth Owning, Krystyn Harrison sits down with Eva Wong, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Borrowell, to talk about what it really takes to build a fintech from zero — the failed first product, the pivot that changed everything, acquiring a company bigger than yours, and why the confidence of a 15-year-old boy might be the best...

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  Why most 7-8 figure businesses are not sellable - with Wendy Brookhouse

  Mar 11, 202633 minS0

  <p>Wendy Brookhouse built a financial planning firm, co-owned a software company, and helped sell it. Then she turned around and started telling founders the thing nobody wants to hear: most of them don't actually have a sellable business.</p><p></p><p>In this episode, Krystyn sits down with the founder and chief strategist at Black Star Wealth to talk about the gap between what founders think their business is worth - and what a buyer would actually pay. Wendy breaks down EBITDA normalizations in plain language, explains why a shareholders agreement can make or break an exit, and...

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