How I Built a Business Portfolio of $150M AUM | Sunny Desai Interview
How I Built a Business Portfolio of $150M AUM | Sunny Desai Interview  
Podcast: Buyers and Builders
Published On: Thu Oct 12 2023
Description: Sunny Desai is the founder and CEO of Desai Companies, a diversified integrated holding company with a diversified portfolio and over $150,000,000 AUM.On this episode, PrivatEquityGuy & Sunny discuss:- details of Sunny's first deal that made a huge difference and how his net worth went up a lot!- how Sunny went from knowing nothing about M&A to being a master at M&A with 3-4 deals a year- how to be really creative with capital.- how to skip 20 years of learning- Sunny shares his most challenging 3-year period building a business (he shares exact methods on what got him through it)- his executive coach advised him to "Plan your whole life and work backwards into daily actions." What does it really mean (Step-by-Step Plan)?!- Sunny strategy as a long-term owner- how journaling improved the way Sunny runs his business- what Sunny's mother tells him every month- Why and how Indian-Origin CEOs rule the world?- Sunny's “best book” recommendationFollow PrivatEquityGuy on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/PrivatEquityGuyJoin HoldCo Builders weekly newsletter on finding deals, raising capital, and growing small niche manufacturing businesses: https://privatequityguy.beehiiv.com/subscribeSunny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sunnysdesai