Roland Frasier
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Investor · Advisor · Dealmaker

The founder trap, solved. 

Roland Frasier helps founders with profitable businesses grow through acquisitions and build a company a serious buyer competes to own. Host of the Business Lunch podcast.

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Who is Roland

The advisor founders call when the stakes are real. 

A recovering attorney who has closed more than a thousand acquisitions and exits, Roland is the person founders call when the stakes are real and the next move has to be right. He pairs the rigor of private equity with the creativity of an operator who built companies from nothing.

He does not sell hustle. He shows owners the board the way a buyer sees it, then helps them build something worth competing for.

What Roland actually does

One job: a business worth more to a buyer than to you. 

01 · The core offer

Consulting for Equity

Roland partners with a handful of founders over one to five years and takes his upside in ownership, not fees. Aligned with your exit, never billing by the hour.

  • Build the team and systems
  • Source and structure acquisitions
  • Get it ready for a premium exit
02

Acquisitions and exits

Grow by buying, then structure a sale a serious buyer competes for. Over 1,000 deals of pattern recognition.

03

A sharper game

Enterprise value over revenue. The moves private equity uses, taught to the founder they are coming to buy.

The track record

Four decades of real deals, not theory. 

1,000+

Acquisitions and exits closed

$1B+

Annual revenue across the portfolio

17

Verticals with active stakes

6x

Inc. 5000 companies as a principal

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Deal teardowns, in his own words. 

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The Business Lunch podcast

Lunch with the people you would never get a meeting with. 

Every week Roland sits down with the founders, operators, and icons most people only read about. Past guests include Richard Branson, Magic Johnson, Sara Blakely, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Martha Stewart. New episodes Tuesday and Thursday.

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The newsletter · Off the Org Chart

Revenue is the wrong scoreboard. 

Off the Org Chart is a weekly email for owners past $1M in EBITDA. One sharp idea on what your business is really worth and how to move that number. Here is what lands in your inbox.

01

What your business is worth

The number a serious buyer would pay, and what is quietly capping it.

02

Leverage you have not used

Acquisitions, equity deals, and multiple arbitrage, not just for private equity.

03

Exit ready, starting now

The moves that raise your multiple years before you ever talk to a buyer.

04

The dealmaker's playbook

How the pros structure deals, in plain language you can act on.

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The books

The playbooks, in print. 

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Business Wealth Without Risk

Written with Jay Abraham, foreword by Tony Robbins. The blueprint for creating a lifetime of income and wealth every three to five years, using the leverage, acquisition, and deal structuring strategies the wealthy quietly rely on, with little capital and little risk.

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The acquisition playbook

Zero Down

Five proven steps to buy profitable businesses with none of your own money out of pocket. Roland walks you through exactly what to say, how to find deals, how to negotiate, and how to structure things so the seller gets paid at closing while you keep your cash. Straight from his E.P.I.C. method and more than a thousand deals.

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Questions

The short answers, in plain terms. 

Who is Roland Frasier?
Roland Frasier is an investor and advisor who helps founders with profitable businesses grow through acquisitions and structure a premium exit. He has closed more than 1,000 acquisitions and exits, holds stakes in a portfolio of 17 verticals generating over $1B a year, and hosts the Business Lunch podcast.
What does Roland Frasier do?
Roland works with established founders on two things, growing through acquisitions and preparing for a premium exit. His approach pairs private equity rigor with the creativity of an operator, so the business becomes one a serious buyer competes to own rather than one that only pays the founder a salary.
What is Consulting for Equity?
Consulting for Equity is Roland Frasier's model for working with a small group of founders each year. Instead of billing hourly fees, he takes an ownership stake and is paid when enterprise value goes up, so his upside is tied to the same exit the founder is building toward.
How do I make my business worth more to a buyer?
Stop optimizing for income and start optimizing for enterprise value. Reduce how much the business depends on you, make your margins and systems transferable, and build the company the way a buyer would want to buy it. Those moves raise your valuation multiple long before you ever talk to a buyer.
When should I start preparing to sell my business?
Years before you plan to sell. Exit readiness is a present practice, not a final step. Owners who get the best price treat clean financials, a transferable team, and a defensible margin as things to build now, so the business is always ready if the right offer arrives.
How can I work with or contact Roland Frasier?
You can reach Roland through the contact page, subscribe to his newsletter Off the Org Chart, or listen to the Business Lunch podcast. He takes on only a few founders a year through Consulting for Equity, where he works for a stake in the outcome rather than a fee.

Work with Roland

A few founders a year. Real skin in the game. 

Consulting for Equity is a small number of deep, multi year engagements for owners with a profitable business and a real exit in view. If that is you, start a conversation.

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