How to De-Risk the Personal Guarantee
Jun 08, 2026•1 hr 11 min
Episode description
Brendan Burdette and Ryan Conner have launched personal guarantee insurance to enable more — and stronger — SBA buyers.
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Topics in Brendan & Ryan’s interview:
- Psychological weight of the personal guarantee
- Building a personal guarantee insurance product
- Taking the risk from a 10 to a 5
- Sequence of events after default
- Targeting mid to late career operators
- Premiums decrease over time
- Balancing risk between unequal partners
- Solving the seller rollover conflict
- Philosophy of “skin in the game”
- How they hope this affects ETA ecosystem
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Edited by Anton Rohozov and produced by Pam Cameron
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