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Buying Small, Growing Big: From $1m to $26m
Published 2 years, 6 months ago
Description
John Wilson bought & grew a very small plumbing business 26x over the last 7 years, and today has plans to reach $100m.
Topics in John’s interview:
- Growing up in his family’s home services business
- Taking over the business at 23
- Acquiring a turnaround to grow his business
- His first time doing layoffs
- Using CertainPath’s model to grow
- Tripling his ad spend during Covid
- Why he believes in buying small
- His take on installing an operator
- His plan to get to $100M
- The taxonomy of blue collar businesses
References and how to contact John:
- Owned and Operated (his podcast)
- The Wilson Companies
- John’s tweet thread breaking down homes services business
- CertainPath
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