Buy the Right Company
For searchers moving from thesis to LOI. We pressure-test the deal in front of you: what the business actually is, what can go wrong, what the seller isn't saying, what the price assumes, and whether you should walk. Five hours, used when the stakes are highest.
What's included
- A clear-eyed read on the deal: real risks, seller dynamics, and what the price assumes
- A walk-or-proceed decision you can defend, and a plan for either path
Meet your expert
Chase M.
Buy the Right Company, Then Run It Well — Counsel from a 5x Acquirer
Through Patina Capital, my personal investment and advisory firm, I serve as counsel to a small number of CEOs and business owners: a standing thinking partner for the person in the seat, built on judgment rather than frameworks. The name is the thesis: a patina forms slowly, and what forms slowly lasts. That counsel draws on my own seat time. I'm the CEO of Decada Group, a self-funded holding company in Salt Lake City. We buy small businesses and hold them indefinitely, with no outside investors and no plans to sell. When we acquire a company, it's a baton pass, honoring what came before while working carefully to build what comes next. I came to this through the search model myself. I've completed multiple acquisitions, operated the companies afterward, and stayed close to the ETA community for years, including a Utah searcher network several hundred strong. I've watched the model create great owner-CEOs, and I've watched it break people who bought the wrong company. Both shaped how I coach. Outside the work, I serve on nonprofit boards, write essays on judgment and ownership at patina.capital, and spend as much time as I can outdoors with my son.
