David Horne

Co-founder and Managing Partner, Calm Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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David Horne is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Calm Capital, a private holding company that acquires and manages profitable SaaS and online businesses. Prior to launching the firm alongside Marty Balkema, he spent over two decades building and operating entrepreneurial ventures.

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Insight

Good cash-flowing businesses rarely fail, but great companies often do

“Good businesses rarely go out of business. Great companies sometimes go out of business, but good businesses rarely go out of business, so, you know, profitable, cash flowing, pretty easy to manage, has, you know, some kind of growth trajectory versus going ba…”

David Horne May 31, 2022 ▶ 3:18 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Horne & Marty Balkema - Co-founders at Calm Capital

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Successive stewardship will eventually create 100-year-old SaaS businesses

“There will be a time where you can look at a SaaS company and be like, that's a hundred year old SaaS business, and it's going to take, you know, a bunch of different people to kind of keep that going, and hopefully continue to add value to the community it se…”

David Horne May 31, 2022 ▶ 25:32 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Horne & Marty Balkema - Co-founders at Calm Capital

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Startup Acquisition Stories with David Horne & Marty Balkema - Co-founders at Calm Capital	May 31, 2022	5m

David Horne

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