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Stop Falling in Love with the Deal: Guardrails for High-Volume Acquisitions with Birgitta and Lars Elfversson

In this episode Birgitta and Lars Elfversson share hard‑earned lessons from building and governing multiple roll‑up platforms, emphasizing the need for disciplined guardrails in high‑volume acquisition programs. They explain why small pipelines create decision pressure, how subtle drift can reshape portfolios, and why a clear acquisition framework—covering size, profitability, services, and integration depth—is essential to avoid "deal fever." The discussion highlights that most roll‑up failures stem from people and integration inconsistencies rather than numbers, and they detail the role of board oversight, founder psychology, and market timing in sustaining value creation.