This is a YouTube video titled "AI Nah, I'm Buying Businesses!" containing a discussion between two speakers about the impact of AI on business and investment strategies, focusing on business consolidation and growth through acquisitions. The conversation took place in March 2025. The speakers are not identified as Kyle Mallien.
You know, I don't get really worried about AI disrupting stuff. I go, okay, well how can AI.
Enhance this business too?
Like, how can I make it better? I don't think they're going to be.
Put out of business.
Right. So that's, I think good economy, bad economy will make money no matter what. I think there's some things that we want to lean into heavily moving forward, but I'm sticking on the, on the roll up train for right now.
Things that we can.
Consolidate and that there's plenty of action. And what you're looking on the, you know, like that's where the big money's coming anyways is.
These, you.
Know, is buying a business that's got $10 million in free cash flow, that you're selling it for 8 to 10 times earnings. You're just going to get way more.
Lift out of it.
So if you're in a position where you can afford to not care about the current cash.
Flow of the business.
Yes, we all want to make more money, yes, we wouldn't mind making an.
Extra 3, 4, 5, $600,000 in a deal.
But if you can afford not to and you can focus on growing the enterprise, man, anything that you can arbitrage.
For 10x, that's where the focus needs to be.
