The Credit Bubble with Derek Brunelle

Derek Brunelle

Welcome to The Credit Bubble—a podcast about the people and institutions deploying and managing the debt capital that fuels businesses and ecosystems around the world. In each episode, we bring you conversations with the executives and practitioners shaping the lending industry—sharing insights, lessons learned, and personal stories from across the world of credit.

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The Credit Bubble with Derek Brunelle

Episodes (11)

Wed Jul 8th Peter Goldstein: Preparing Founders for a Better Exit
Jun 17th Krista Morgan: Restructuring Venture-Backed Software Companies
Jun 1st Ruben Shafir: Underwriting Unit Economics in a Shifting Credit Market

The Credit Bubble with Derek Brunelle

Jul 8, 2026
49¼ minutes
46 MB

In this episode of The Credit Bubble, I sit down with Peter Goldstein, CEO of a Nasdaq-listed acquisition corporation and a four-decade entrepreneur with five exits behind him. Peter traces his arc from starting a perishable food business at 24 — and selling it at 30 with no banker, no transactional lawyer, and millions left on the table — to running his own boutique investment bank and now leading a public company. We get into why he tells founders that not everyone will IPO, but every company will eventually exit, and why building a transferable business that can run without you is the real work...

The Credit Bubble with Derek Brunelle

Peter Goldstein: Preparing Founders for a Better Exit

Derek Brunelle

00:00 -49:24