Bob Roark
Host of The Exit Series and its predecessor, Business Leaders Podcast. Over 200 episodes interviewing business owners, brokers, exit professionals, and the founders who went through it.
Bob has built advisory practices, acquired and operated agricultural and commercial real estate, and been in the arena across multiple industries. He has been around the track — which is why the conversations on this podcast sound different.
Why This Podcast Exists
A close friend — a combat veteran who built an eight-figure company — turned down a buyout to let his son run the business. They expanded, leveraged up, and 2008 took everything. The company. The family relationships. The friendships.
He could have carved out a minority position and preserved his never-have-to-work-again money. Nobody told him. I didn’t know enough to tell him.
“I vowed that would never happen again on my watch.”
That experience is too valuable to go unrecorded. The conversations that could have changed the outcome for him — and for the founders walking into the same storm right now — are the conversations this podcast exists to have.
What Bob Brings to the Conversation
A practitioner’s perspective — not a journalist’s. These are conversations Bob has been having privately for years, now on the record.
Your story. Your IP. Both belong on the record.
If your work or your experience puts you close to the business exit — as a founder who lived it, an attorney who guided the deal, or a broker who was in the room — there may be a conversation here.
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