The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

clear all ✕

why aren't all 5 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Disclosure
Sorbara: Multiple acquisition offers for Barkley HQ were identical
“Cause a lot of the offers were the exact same.”
David Sabara Sep 26, 2023 ▶ 11:11 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Sorbara, Founder of Barkley HQ
Insight
Sorbara: Track a P&L from day one to streamline future acquisitions
“My advice for any founder, whether you want to sell your business or you just want to have a business and run a business day one, you open up an Excel sheet and you start tracking with a P and L. Cause this is going to allow you to track your income, your expe…”
David Sabara Sep 26, 2023 ▶ 13:36 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Sorbara, Founder of Barkley HQ
Disclosure
Sorbara: Barkley HQ ran for four and a half years before acquisition
“And that was the SaaS business that I have been working on for probably about the last four and a half years which was recently acquired in May, 2020,”
David Sabara Sep 26, 2023 ▶ 0:47 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Sorbara, Founder of Barkley HQ
Disclosure
Sorbara: Barkley HQ was started with the end goal of getting acquired
“I kind of started the business with Always wanting the end goal to be getting acquired.”
David Sabara Sep 26, 2023 ▶ 8:18 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Sorbara, Founder of Barkley HQ
Disclosure
Sorbara: Plans to acquire and scale a pre-revenue software business next
“I think I want to acquire a smaller business, maybe something pre-revenue and then see if I can apply my skills to it, to build it and then sell it again. But coming up with the idea is the hard part. So that's kind of why I want to find something that's Someo…”
David Sabara Sep 26, 2023 ▶ 16:55 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Sorbara, Founder of Barkley HQ
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 100 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.