Acquiring Minds
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Episode 268
Season 1
The Scrappy Path of a One-Man Holdco
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When Dustin Carreon reached a ceiling in his first small business, he used the profits to start buying other businesses.
Topics in Dustin’s interview:
- Growing up in his parents’ scrapping business
- Inheriting and growing Freelance Electronics
- Learning the most from a difficult acquisition
- Timing and luck matters
- Key person risk in small-staff businesses
- His mistake of expanding before establishing expectations
- Cross-training employees as part of his holdco vision
- An investor attitude compared with an entrepreneur attitude
- Building a holdco without a college education
- Challenge of writing down processes
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