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From 2 Million-Dollar Jobs to Dozens: How He Scaled a Fence Company
In Part Two, Brenden Van Buren picks up where Part One left off: running Pro Max, the commercial fencing company he bought in 2018.
He gets candid about his first year in charge, from learning to hire and fire to a stretch when roughly one in ten laborer candidates showed up for interviews. He breaks down the growth levers that worked and the one that didn't: acquisitions in a fragmented market, a new office in State College, a gate automation and access control line he didn't know he was buying, and a push into larger projects. Before he took over, Pro Max had done about two jobs over $1…
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