The Deal Table
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#58 | Kelly Ann Winget: Bought an $11M Ammo Company for $0
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The Deal Table is a long-form podcast featuring the founders, operators, investors, and advisors who navigate consequential decisions around capital, control, leadership, and legacy.
Filmed at Old Parkland in Dallas, the show brings together leaders who have built, financed, governed, acquired, and exited real businesses to speak candidly about private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and what actually happens before, during, and after the deal.
For founders, executives, investors, and advisors making decisions
Sponsored by: Capital Southwest, Security National Bank, IMA & Blockchain.com
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- #58 | Kelly Ann Winget: Bought an $11M Ammo Company for $0 · 1 jam 19 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 58Kelly Ann Winget bought a profitable ammunition company with $11 million in assets out of Chapter 11, and put up no cash to do it. More on Kelly Ann Winget and this episode…
- #57 | Margot Carter: Sold to Blackstone the Morning of the IPO · 1 jam 1 mnt · Musim 3Margot Carter has worked on hundreds of deals and can count the bad ones on one hand. Her rule: the best deal is sometimes the one you don't do. More on Margot Carter and this…
- #56 Rep. Beth Van Duyne | Mayors Move the Economy. Congress Sets the Rules. · 1 jam 7 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 56Beth Van Duyne ran a city before she ran for Congress. She says the mayor's office moves an economy more than Washington does. More on Beth Van Duyne and this episode…
- #55 Jonathan Lusk | 99.9% of Ranches Are in the Red · 1 jam 8 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 55Jonathan Lusk gives away the hunting marketplace for free. BirdDog makes its money on ranch taxes, loans and insurance instead. More on Jonathan Lusk and this episode…
- #54 Donna Letier | The Gardening Company Insurance Will Pay For · 1 jam 2 mntDonna Letier built the first gardening company insurance will pay for. More than 500 organizations use it, and 85 percent come back.More on Donna Letier and this episode…
- #53 Bill Rowe: There Are More PE Jobs Than Proven Operators · 1 jam 19 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 53"If we owned this company, we wrote the $50 million check to control this business, is that who you would hire to put in that job?" Bill Rowe is founder, chairman and CEO of…
- #52 Alex Danza, Vonlane: They Said Nobody Would Pay $99 to Ride a Bus · 1 jam 21 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 52"People thought I was crazy 12 years ago. You're going to ask people to spend $99 to ride a bus. They thought I was nuts. And I thought I was nuts a little bit."Alex Danza is the…
- #51 Allen West | Our P&L Statement Was in Lives · 1 jam 20 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 51His P&L was measured in lives, not dollars. Allen West commanded 650 soldiers in Iraq, then carried the same leadership system into Congress and into business. More on Allen…
- #50 George Baker | Private Equity Rarely Loses · 1 jam 7 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 50"Private equity rarely loses." George Baker says it as a director of the company he founded, watching his own shareholder value climb. Lane Carrick, who sells founder-owned…
- #49 Edward Crawford and Ralph Manning, Coltala Holdings: $400M, 24 Deals · 1 jam 18 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 49Private equity principals do not say this out loud: "We need to sell this company before something bad happens." Ralph Manning did it for years, not because the market was right…
- #48 Jennifer Chandler | Spanish Teacher to $86 Billion · 1 jam 3 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 48At 20 she was teaching high school Spanish. Today she runs Bank of America in North Texas and an $86 billion practice for foundations. More on Jennifer Chandler and this episode…
- #47 | Rex Kurzius: Google's AI Answers Killed 80% of Our Clicks · 1 jam 13 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 47Google's AI answers took 60 to 80% of the clicks businesses used to get. Rex Kurzius rebuilt his entire company around the thing that did it. More on Rex Kurzius and this…
- #46 | Tony Bridwell: Why Culture Never Shows Up in Due Diligence · 1 jam 24 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 46Every buyer says culture is everything. No buyer puts culture in diligence. Tony Bridwell has spent 25 years inside that gap. More on Tony Bridwell and this episode…
- #45 | David Henry: From Radio Sales to $20 Million Jets · 1 jam 6 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 45A private jet is not a luxury purchase, it is a time-value-of-money decision. Here is what flying private actually costs, all in. More on David Henry and this episode…
- #44 | Kneeland Youngblood: What to Ask When a President Walks In · 1 jam 35 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 44"If the president of the United States walks in the room, what's your ask?" Bill Bradley put that question to Kneeland Youngblood decades ago. More on Kneeland Youngblood and…
- #43 | Ken Malcolmson: Dallas Passes Chicago as No. 3 Metro by 2030 · 1 jam 2 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 43"It's projected we'll exceed Chicago as the third largest metro in the country by 2030." Ken Malcolmson gives the mechanics, not the brochure. More on Ken Malcolmson and this…
- #42 | Thomas Gleason: Buying an 1889 Boot Company · 1 jam 8 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 42Two of the oldest names in cowboy boots, founded in 1900 and 1889, cost Thomas Gleason closer to $100,000 than $100 million. More on Thomas Gleason and this episode…
- #41 | Jay Young: Singles and Doubles Beat Home Runs in Oil · 1 jam 11 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 41Jay Young learned the business gauging tanks by hand for his grandfather, then ignored his father's advice: never get in the oil business. More on Jay Young and this episode…
- #40 | Preston Dunlap: How Starlink Got Into the Pentagon · 58 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 40Preston Dunlap ran about $75 billion a year of Air Force and Space Force technology spending, and wrote the first government checks into SpaceX. More on Preston Dunlap and this…
- #39 | Randall Bryant: 120 Days to Save DART and Its 13 Cities · 1 jam 13 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 39Randall Bryant was elected chair of DART on October 28. The next day, six member cities began moving toward withdrawal elections. More on Randall Bryant and this episode…







