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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
Horizon Advisors hosts Worth Owning, a business show with 20 episodes published.
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
Most founders build profitable businesses. Very few build sellable ones. There's a massive difference, and it could cost you millions. In this first live recording of Inside M&A: Opening the Playbook, Krystyn Harrison (C
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.
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. In this e
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 se
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang has spent years inside hundreds of organizations watching the same design failure play out: founders who built something real, then quietly became the single point of failure inside it. He's the aut
Tim Ray sold his first company ten months after launching it. Two million dollars, a clean exit, and one nagging question: was that skill or just a lucky ride on the group-buying wave? Four ventures later, he has his ans
In this episode of Worth Owning, Krystyn Harrison talks with Brett Chang, co-founder and CEO of The Peak, who built one of Canada's most read business newsletters from three unemployed founders at home during COVID to $2
Worth Owning is a podcast for founders who want to build real wealth- without burning out to get there. Hosted by Krystyn Harrison, cofounder of Horizon Advisors, the show features unfiltered conversations with entrepren
In this episode of Getting to the Deal, Krystyn Harrison talks with Alan Wood, founder of Rally Beer Company, who built Canada's first electrolyte-rich functional beer from a $2,000 garage setup to $1 million in revenue
In this episode of Getting to the Deal, host Krystyn Harrison sits down with Peter Hwang, a serial founder who has built and exited four companies across five industries, including the $263 million sale of Newstrike to H
In this episode of Getting to the Deal, host Krystyn Harrison sits down with Miranda Lievers, co-founder and former COO of Thinkific, who took her company public in one of the most compressed IPO timelines in Canadian te
Most founders discover the frameworks for successful exits too late. Julie Ellis, co-founder of Mabel's Labels, learned them the hard way—and she's sharing exactly what she wishes she'd known before selling to Avery Labe
In this episode of Getting to the Deal, host Krystyn Harrison sits down with Narbe Alexandrian, founder and CEO of Define Capital, a permanent capital firm that's rewriting private equity rules by acquiring vertical SaaS
In this episode of Getting to the Deal, host Krystyn Harrison sits down with Marcus Mitchell, founder of Shire Capital Management and former CIO of Bonnefield, Canada's largest farmland manager. Marcus has overseen more
In this episode of Getting to the Deal, host Krystyn Harrison sits down with Tyler Handley, co-founder of Inkbox, who transformed a jungle discovery into a $65 million acquisition by BIC in seven years. Tyler shares how
In this episode of Getting to the Deal, host Krystyn Harrison sits down with Jacqueline Dinsmore, a multi-exit entrepreneur who went from Bay Street lawyer to three successful exits in under a decade. Jackie shares her d
In this episode of Getting to the Deal, co-hosts Krystyn and Matt Harrison pull back the curtain on their own entrepreneurial journey, sharing why they founded Exit Horizon and the painful lessons that led them there. Kr
In this episode of Getting to the Deal, host Krystyn Harrison sits down with Andrea Matheson , former M&A leader at CGI turned fintech founder, to unpack what it really takes to build with an exit in mind. Andrea shares
Real conversations with Canadian business owners who've sold their companies, the advisors who guided them, and the buyers who made it happen. Host Krystyn Harrison breaks down what actually worked, what didn't, and what
Susan Richards
Founder & CEO · CredTech Consulting LLC
1 appearance on this show
Wendy Brookhouse
Founder & Chief Strategist · Black Star Wealth
1 appearance on this show
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Futurist and author
1 appearance on this show
Julie Ellis
author of Big Gorgeous Goals and podcast host of Figure 8 · The Chef’s Table
1 appearance on this show
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