Buying Small, Growing Big: From $1m to $26m
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
Twitter…
The skinny
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