Bulletproof Entrepreneur · 2026-05-14 · 1h 24m
Send us Fan Mail Nick Bradley has sat on the other side of the table for more than 50 acquisitions and 27 exits. He knows exactly how private equity firms assess a business, where founders give away their leverage, and why so many walk away from a life-changing deal with far less than they should have. But this conversation is not really about deal mechanics. It is about the journey that got him there. From running a small gym in Adelaide to launching magazines in Sydney, to flying between London and New York every week for a job that was quietly costing him everything. It took a sudden loss, a stress injury he never saw coming, and an unexpected reunion to make him question the entire game he had spent a decade winning. In this episode, Nick shares the framework he now uses to help founders build genuinely valuable businesses, the difference between the companies buyers fight over and the ones they pick apart, and the identity shift that has to happen before any exit is worth doing. He also opens up about the moment he put a resignation letter on the table, and how his definition of success looks nothing like it did ten years ago.
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