Guy Solomon on Buying a Company, Losing 90% of Revenue, and Still Winning
Guy Solomon left investment banking to buy a small business.
After years at Barclays and Wells Fargo, he went deep into the world of Search Funds and Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) in Israel — a market filled with profitable, often overlooked SMEs that nobody was really institutionalizing yet.
But this wasn’t a straight-line success story.
Guy screened more than 8,000 companies, met with 150+ owners, acquired Dublo, and then had the business stress-tested almost immediately. COVID hit. Revenue dropped roughly 90%. A major database corruption nearly took the company down. Suddenly…
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