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Ryan Ray

Director of Partnerships at Ad Astra Equity Advisors, an M&A advisory firm helping founder-owned businesses sell.

Oct 8, 2026

4:57
Give us kind of the rundown on Adstra Equity, what you're doing, all that good stuff.
5:04
Yeah, so I've been running small businesses since I was 22.
5:08
My dad had an engineering and surveying company and he was going to retire.
5:12
And he's like, hey, you want to try to run this? Then give it a shot or keep living in Dallas, which I was at the time.
5:18
So we moved back to Louisiana and I started to run the company.
5:21
If you've read the book, The Frackers, talking about the show revolution, that's the story about Chesapeake.
5:26
We were the second biggest survey company for Chesapeake at the time.

12 MINS LATER

17:52
But I'm not accounting for that revenue when I try and underwrite what this deal looks like because the moment they walk away, anything beyond that, I'm now in a hole.

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