The Playbook for 50-200% Annual Company Growth
The Playbook for 50-200% Annual Company Growth  
Podcast: Buyers and Builders
Published On: Fri Dec 19 2025
Description: In this episode, I’m joined by John Seiffer - the person investors, company buyers and operators call when growth starts getting expensive, messy, or fragile. John has spent decades across manufacturing, software, restaurants, chemicals, and professional services, and he sees the same pattern over and over: founders are great at the product and the sale… but the company can’t scale until the structure scales.TIMESTAMPS00:00 Deals are great, but the money is made in operations02:15 The real business model: CAC, LTV, gross margin07:06 What a “healthy company” looks like + why founders get stuck on structure10:10 Sponsor: CapitalPad (back the next generation of business buyers)11:09 The expectation gap: hiring for outputs + breaking sales into subdivisions15:48 Scaling myth: reinvesting blindly (why ROIC and attribution matter)20:22 “Exit without selling”: free your time, keep ownership benefits, serve your life24:34 Sponsor: SpaceBar Studios ($0 newsletter build, limited spots)33:13 Delegation done right: specify the output + schedule follow-ups (no surprises)42:33 John’s 1-week playbook: “systems inventory” + 2 questions that reveal misalignmentSponsors:https://capitalpad.com/https://www.spacebarstudios.co/inquireFollow Mikk/PrivateEquityGuy on Twitter: ⁠⁠https://x.com/PrivatEquityGuyThis podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.