Know The Deal

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Aracor's podcast about the legal side of dealmaking. Hosts Katya Fisher and John Lindsey sit down with CEOs, family-office principals, and veteran dealmakers for candid 20–30 minute conversations about negotiation, diligence, and the legal decisions that make or break a transaction.

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A podcast on the legal side of dealmaking
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Know the Deal. Episode 4

with Victoria PelletierThe Turnaround Queen

Episode 4 · 25 minutes · September 9, 2026
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Know the Deal. Episode 4

with Victoria PelletierThe Turnaround Queen

Victoria Pelletier became one of the youngest COOs in the country at 24. More than 40 acquisitions later, she is known as the Turnaround Queen, and she argues that most deals succeed or fail for a single reason: the people. Pelletier has been a COO, president, and CEO across companies ranging from a few hundred employees to nearly half a million. She joins Katya Fisher and John Lindsey to dig into the part of dealmaking the spreadsheets miss, which is everything that happens after the merger closes. They cover why change management has to start before the ink dries, how culture clashes quietly erase the value a deal was supposed to create, the warning signs that make her walk away, and why she is skeptical of companies blaming layoffs on AI.

Episode 4 · 25 minutes · September 9, 2026Spotify
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Know the Deal. Episode 3

with Sal BuscemiCEO, Brahmin Partners

When the market breaks and everyone else is forced to sell, distressed investors are the ones still writing checks. Sal Buscemi explains how that works. Buscemi, CEO of Brahmin Partners, started at Goldman Sachs and built one of Miami’s leading private multifamily investment offices. He sits down with Katya Fisher and John Lindsey to break down distressed credit and real estate: why the market runs in cycles, how rising interest rates expose the buyers who overpaid, and how disciplined capital makes money when the timing is right. Contrarian, and refreshingly blunt about how the business really works.

Episode 3 · 23 min · August 24, 2026Spotify
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Know the Deal. Episode 2

with Kurt DanielCEO, Virtuozzo

Kurt Daniel talked his way into Harvard from a public school, pitched Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer at Microsoft, and has since run five companies and a long list of exits. Now CEO of Virtuozzo, which builds infrastructure software for AI and the cloud, Daniel joins Katya Fisher and John Lindsey to walk through what he learned building and selling companies, with exits touching MongoDB, Worklight (acquired by IBM), Parallels, and Ubersmith. They get into what separates the companies that scale from the ones that stall, how to make complex technology simple enough to sell, and what a serial operator actually does differently.

Episode 2 · 24 min · August 17, 2026Spotify
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Know the Deal. is a show about how deals actually get done, hosted by the people who do them. In the first episode, co-hosts Katya Fisher and John Lindsey set the table. Fisher is an attorney and the founder and CEO of Aracor, a dealmaking platform, and has spent more than sixteen years inside mergers, acquisitions, and the fine print that decides who gets paid. Together they lay out what the show covers: negotiation, financing, law, leadership, and the technology reshaping every seat at the table. Real transactions, the ones that closed and the ones that fell apart, and the judgment behind both.

Episode 1 · 43min · August 11, 2026Spotify
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