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She Had Never Run a Company. She Bought One and Grew It From $32M to $129M.
Theresa Eaton spent 14 years in private equity meeting 3,000+ founders. Then she bought one of the businesses herself: a 40-year-old medium voltage cable distributor, owned by an 82-year-old founder, that her own firm had passed on.
With personal guarantees and no experience running a company, she took it from $32M to $129M in revenue in five years. Along the way she broke her loan covenants, rebuilt her sales team, and followed a hyperscaler customer into data centers, one of the hottest corners of the electrical market.
In Part 1, Theresa and Kory Mitchell talk about what it takes to buy a…
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