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Building a Blue Collar Empire

After seeing 9-figure businesses built through acquisition, Adrian Pinto bought a landscaping biz to build one himself.

Themes from Adrian’s interview:

Buying a $3-5M landscaping business with 15-20% margins

Paying 3x, but rapid growth making it more like 2x

What a buy-side advisor is and when it might make sense to work with one

How COVID helped his search process

Why doing his own search was less stressful than a traditional search would have been

The excitement versus the reality of acquiring bolt-ons to your platform business

Beginning with the idea of building a strong base for future…

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