Acquiring Minds
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Episode 247
Season 1
Holdco Origin Story: The Bumpy Road to $3m EBITDA
4 acquisitions, 3 years after the first deal, and 2 dishonest sellers before Chandra Rao went full-time in his holdco.
Topics in Chandra’s interview:
- Learning from due diligence mistakes
- Losing $300k in the first year
- Challenges with payment terms and working capital
- True value of a seller note
- One of his partners embezzled from the companyFppp
- Choosing a conventional loan over SBA
- The electrical contracting and fiber optic cabling businesses
- 6x growth in 4 years
- Juggling a roll-up and a W-2
- A seller who committed fraud
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