Co-founder and M&A partner Ramsey Sahyoun stopped by Uncle Marv’s IT Business Podcast, recorded live at Pax8 Beyond 2026, to explain how Evergreen thinks about acquiring MSPs and why the approach looks nothing like a traditional roll-up. When Ramsey and Jeff Totten started Evergreen in 2017, they took their cue from Berkshire Hathaway. Buy good businesses, hold them permanently, and let the people who built them keep running them. Their first MSP, Wolf Consulting in Pittsburgh, chose Evergreen over two other suitors for exactly that reason. The competing offers would have folded the company into a larger brand until it disappeared. Evergreen offered a permanent home and full independence instead.
That model still holds today across more than 160+ companies. When a business joins Evergreen, it keeps its name, its brand, its tech stack, and what made it a good business in the first place. What changes is the support behind it- vendor buying power through master agreements, peer groups with other owners, and a growth playbook designed to make each company a stronger version of itself rather than a cost line in someone else’s org chart. Ramsey also looked ahead to where Evergreen is expanding next, from ERP consulting to the MSPs putting AI-driven workflow automation to work for their clients. If you own an MSP doing more than $3 million in revenue and you are starting to think about what comes next, this conversation is worth a listen.
Listen to the full podcast below.