Dad's Cooking, Time to go out to Dinner with BJ Thompson

SMB Playbook · Sep 25, 2026 · 52m

SMB Playbook welcomes Exit Engine’s financer extraordinaire, BJ Thompson — the affable CFO with a Loki-adjacent sense of humor and a warehouse-airsoft origin story — to walk the books, the deals, and the people behind them. From a Salt Lake City childhood and a first job at a rifle manufacturer that turned inventory curiosity into a career, BJ traces the route through Westminster, a tax-class friendship with Ryan Reese, and the Spitz lunch that put the core Exit Engine roster on the field. The play he wants owners to run is simple and rare: don’t ramrod a sale, get the owner and the business…