Nick Lall - Episode 13 - Bakari Akil, Graves Hall Capital

Nick Lall Search Funded: The ETA Podcast

In this episode, host Nick Lall interviews Bakari Akil, Managing Director of Graves Hall Capital. 

They discuss Bakari's unique path to becoming a successful acquisition entrepreneur, including his most recent acquisition of a $30 million burlap bag manufacturing company. 

Bakari also shares his experiences as a lecturer at Cornell and Columbia Business Schools, his founding of New York's largest private equity hedge fund group on meetup.com, and what led him to launch Nomad Noir, a community for black digital nomads. 

Bakari offers extremely valuable insights on leveraging unconventional routes in entrepreneurship and business acquisitions, forging strong relationships with prominent figures like Dr. Cornel West and Tim Bovard without prior connections, how to approach deal analysis, and his daily habits that have led to his success.

Nick Lall - Rafael Dufour, Relais du Dirigeant

Nick Lall Search Funded: The ETA Podcast

Rafael is a solo traditional searcher looking to acquire an SME in France. He has 11 years of purchasing, sales, business development, strategy, and general management experience in Manufacturing (Steel, Textile) and FMCG (Personal care, Hygiene) industries, and France, Spain, Morocco, China and Australia.

Over the past 8 years, Rafael has built a track record in managing crisis situations as well as organic growth strategies in privately held medium size companies (€20m to €90m of revenues) both as General Manager and Strategy & Business Development Director. 

Nick Lall - Round 2 with Ibrahim and Khaled of Moonbase Capital

Nick Lall Search Funded: The ETA Podcast

Moonbase just raised $5M and Ibrahim and Khaled returned to discuss what they're seeing in the search fund ecosystem.