The Next Chapter After 400 Episodes
No guest today. No interview. Just Kison talking directly to you.
After 400 episodes and nearly 100 founding members, Kison wanted to give you a real update - where M&A Science has been, what we're building, and where this is going.
In this episode:
- Why episodes are moving to Thursdays
- How the Intelligence Hub actually works (and why it's better for M&A than ChatGPT)
- What's coming next: Buyer-Led M&A Certification and Enterprise Intelligence Hub
- Ways to get involved: Membership and the Deal Leader program
If you've been part of this journey, this one's for you.
Ready to join? Become an M&A Scientist: mascience.com/membership - $995/year for full access to the Intelligence Hub, live sessions, and practitioner community.
Limited time: Become a member by March 1st, get $100 to the M&A Science shop.
Want to contribute? Become a Deal Leader (20+ deals required):
Email kison@mascience.com
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M&A Science is the leading podcast for modern M&A practitioners. We bring together the industry’s top experts to share real-world lessons on how to lead deals more effectively—from sourcing and diligence to integration. Each episode uncovers practical strategies to modernize the M&A process and build a scalable, Buyer-Led M&A™ function.
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Kison Patel
Kison Patel is the Founder and CEO of M&A Science and Executive Chairman of DealRoom: the operating standard for buy-side M&A execution.
Kison spent over a decade as an M&A advisor before building what the industry was missing. What he kept seeing was structural: M&A is disconnected by design. Confidentiality creates silence. Silence creates silos. Silos create proprietary processes. The result is a market where the sell side runs on standardized playbooks while the buy side still improvises deal after deal, team after team.
The downstream effects are predictable. Knowledge trapped in people's heads. Fragmented handoffs between diligence and integration. Speed to close celebrated while value quietly leaks after the ink dries.
Kison built DealRoom and M&A Science to change that. He developed DealPilot and the Buyer-Led M&A™ certification programs, built from primary source intelligence across 400+ interviews with the Corp Dev leaders, PE operators, and integration specialists who have actually run deals. In his role as Executive Chairman of DealRoom, he also works to bring that practitioner standard directly into the software teams use to run acquisitions.
He also hosts the M&A Science Podcast. 2.5M+ downloads and 400+ conversations with the practitioners who shape how acquisitions actually get done.
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