The Deal Table
The Deal Table
Podcast Description
The Deal Table is a show where entrepreneurs, executives, and investors share actionable insights, strategies, and success stories about building, scaling, and exiting businesses. It features conversations with leading voices to inspire and connect like-minded professionals.
Our target audience includes entrepreneurs, executives, and capital providers actively involved in growth, capital raising, and strategic deals.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers a range of themes including entrepreneurship, leadership, venture capital, and strategic business exits. Episodes delve into topics such as private equity strategies, navigating funding challenges, and lessons from industry leaders, with specific episodes highlighting key figures like Jim Keyes discussing transitions in corporate leadership and Kevin Lavelle sharing an unfiltered account of building his brand.
The Deal Table is a long-form podcast featuring the founders, operators, investors, and advisors who navigate consequential decisions around capital, control, leadership, and legacy.
Hosted by Lane Carrick and Ryan Harper, and filmed at Old Parkland in Dallas, the show brings together leaders who have built, financed, governed, acquired, and exited real businesses to speak candidly about private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and what actually happens before, during, and after the deal.
For founders, executives, investors, and advisors making decisions
Dallas–Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing business regions in the U.S., driven by corporate relocations, financial services expansion, and major infrastructure investment.
Ken Malcolmson, President Emeritus of the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, explains what’s behind this growth and why companies continue moving to North Texas.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
WHAT WE COVER
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
• Why Dallas–Fort Worth is emerging as a leading U.S. business hub
• The role of corporate relocations in driving regional growth
• How DFW Airport and infrastructure investment support economic expansion
• The “hard advantages” behind Dallas growth (taxes, location, talent pipeline, regulation)
• The “soft advantages” that influence company decisions (culture, accessibility, collaboration)
• Why major financial institutions continue expanding in North Texas
• The impact of housing affordability on rapid metro growth
• The push toward increased urban density in Dallas and surrounding cities
• How downtown Dallas is evolving into a mixed-use business and residential center
• The role of civic leadership, chambers of commerce, and universities in economic development
• What Dallas growth signals about the future of major U.S. cities
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
📱 CONNECT WITH US
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Buy Lane's book: The Optima Advantage
The Blueprint for Selling Smart and Exiting Stronghttps://amzn.to/48nLElW
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The Deal Table is Produced by Harper Belmont Media
Sponsored by:
Capital Southwest | https://capitalsouthwest.com
Follow The Deal Table:
https://www.instagram.com/thedealtablepodcast/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-deal-table/
Follow Ryan Harper:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansharper/
https://www.instagram.com/ryansharper/
Follow Lane Carrick:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-lane-carrick-65a728/
Sign up for the Deal Table Newsletter: https://share.hsforms.com/1Tfx_WobCTPuXWenG1-69EQoavsd
#dallas #business #dfw #economicdevelopment #thedealtable
Disclaimer
This podcast’s information is provided for general reference and was obtained from publicly accessible sources. The Podcast Collaborative neither produces nor verifies the content, accuracy, or suitability of this podcast. Views and opinions belong solely to the podcast creators and guests.
For a complete disclaimer, please see our Full Disclaimer on the archive page. The Podcast Collaborative bears no responsibility for the podcast’s themes, language, or overall content. Listener discretion is advised. Read our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for more details.