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How One Commercial Cleaner Scaled to 500 Employees Without VC
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This episode of Scaling Up with Fexingo unpacks the growth playbook of a commercial cleaning company that grew from a single office-cleaning contract to 500 employees across three states — without ever taking venture capital. Lucas breaks down their unconventional approach: how they used a profit-sharing model to reduce turnover to under 10 percent in an industry that averages 200 percent, how they funded new locations entirely from cash flow by staggering expansion into adjacent geographies, and why they turned down a private equity buyout offer at 8 times EBITDA. Luna pushes back on whether the model can work outside service businesses, and they land on the core lesson: tightly defined incentives can replace external capital. A master class in bootstrapped scale for founders who want to grow without giving up control.