Acquiring Minds
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Episode 193
Season 1
Boom, Bust, Boom: Buying a Whiplash Business
Chandler Reed reflects on buying a project-based business in 2021, seeing sales soar, then crash, then surge again.
Topics in Chandler’s interview:
- His unconventional entrance into the search space
- Buying a commercial lighting contractor
- Incentivizing the sole employee to stay on
- The challenges of managing people
- The ups and downs of project-based revenue
- How interest rates affected his deal flow
- Involvement with Sam Rosati’s boot camp
- Choosing a business based on desired lifestyle
- Pros and cons of subcontracting
- His preference for digital over physical businesses
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