Patrick Rogers on Why Acquiring Businesses Beats Growing Them Every Time

🎙️ From Nuclear Reactors to Acquisition Arbitrage: Patrick Rogers’ Path to Elkridge Advisors

Patrick Rogers, managing partner of Elkridge Advisors, ran nuclear reactors in the Navy, spent 13 years in chemical sales management, built a property management company from a real estate crash, coached CEOs for 17 years, and then watched his M&A mentor reveal a complete absence of character at exactly the wrong moment. What came next — three months of meditation, a complete reinvention, and a business model nobody else is running — is the real story. His goal: create 1,000 deca millionaires by acquiring businesses at 5% down and selling them at double the multiple.

✨ Key Insights You’ll Learn:

• The SBA hack that gets buyers into deals at 5% down instead of 10%

• Acquisition arbitrage: buying five companies at 4x and selling the combined entity at 8x

• How to structure a seller standby note that makes the 5% down possible

• Why the SBA Business Expansion Program can get qualified buyers in at zero down

• Elkridge’s 60-day observation protocol before any changes are made post-acquisition

• Employee-driven strategy sessions — letting the team determine the direction

• How Patrick spotted the organic growth ceiling and pivoted to acquisitions

• The mentor betrayal that cost $1M and launched Elkridge Advisors

• How three months of meditation and manifestation produced a business model that didn’t exist

• The 25-company close goal for the coming year

🌟 Patrick’s Key Mentors:

• Dave Lofts (District Manager, Nalco Water): Taught Patrick that modeling the best is the fastest path to becoming the best

• Wendy Patton (Real Estate Investor): Introduced Patrick to creative deal structures that planted the acquisition mindset

• His M&A Mentor (Unnamed): A cautionary lesson in vetting character before trust — and whose betrayal led directly to Elkridge

• Robert (Co-Founder, Elkridge): Found through meditation and a year of silence — brought the business operating system that doubled Elkridge’s value proposition

• His Own Subconscious: Three months of deep meditation that produced the Elkridge concept and the conviction to build it

👉 Don’t miss this wide-ranging conversation about deal structure, people-driven acquisition strategy, and why the most important business decision Patrick ever made was choosing to sit still.

🔗 Connect with Patrick Rogers:

Website: elkridgeadvisors.com

LinkedIn: Patrick Rogers — Elkridge Advisors

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