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Equity, Grit, and Growth w/ Ander Sevilla :: Ep 274 The Mostly Middle Tennessee Business Podcast
Entrepreneur Ander Sevilla, founder of Black Light, joins host Jim McCarthy to share how he went from selling duct tape wallets in 4th grade to building a fast-growing marketing and private equity hybrid based in Nashville. Ander talks about losing everything (twice), moving cross‑country to start over, turning an Antioch house into an incubator, and raising capital to scale Black Light into multiple markets.
They dive into:
Why he left law school plans for entrepreneurship
How Black Light takes equity stakes in businesses instead of just fees
What he looks for in founders and teams
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