Acquiring Minds
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Episode 256
Season 1
2 Welders and a Shop... to $3.8m in Sales
Matt Pohl & his wife bought a small welding business with extreme key person risk. They 4x'd the business in 2 years.
Topics in Matt’s interview:
- Starting, growing and selling his own business
- Acquiring a welding business with his wife
- Learning how to hire welders
- The difficulties of hiring through a staffing agency
- Transient nature of welders
- Growing while maintaining margins
- Stress of running a business
- Comparing zero-to-one to acquisition
- Cashflow management in a project-based business
- Using ReWild’s methods to grow the business
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