When does doing work for yourself turn into building an actual business?
Nathan sits down with Chasteen Land & Title CEO Brandon Chasteen and President Jeremy Chasteen to talk about the company’s journey from two landmen looking for their own clients to a team serving complex land and title projects across the Midwest.
They talk about cold-calling and walking into companies to find those first clients, surviving the collapse in oil prices, hiring their first employees, discovering new markets, building a reputation, and learning when to pursue an opportunity and when to say no. Brandon and Jeremy also reflect on one of the harder lessons of growth: eventually, running a business becomes as much about people, delegation, and responsibility as it is about doing excellent work.
For anyone building a business, leading a growing team, or wondering what changes when a small operation starts becoming a real company, this is a candid look at thirteen years of figuring it out as they went.