Many Founder dentists have based their growth strategy on “scale for a sale.” If you’re one of them, you’re not going to like this episode. Today’s world of Private Equity-backed DSOs has become a house of cards when it comes to recaps and “second bites of the apple.” For far too many, there is no hope of recap and there is no windfall return to shareholders. Welcome to the world of “the Zombie DSO.” Want to know the foundation that house of cards is built upon? Push play.
CHAPTERS:
:50 The Gold Rush then versus Fool’s Gold now
3:30 Entrance of the Zombie DSO
6:20 A quick review of the Private Equity model
15:10 A quick review of Valuation and Lending
19:30 The key variable that NO ONE is talking about
21:50 How did we get to here?
24:20 So, where does this all end? …
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