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The $500M founder's hard lesson: build your finance system before it breaks, with John Olsen (EP 006) | Growth Under Pressure
John Olsen built and sold multiple healthcare ventures, including EncompassRx, a specialty pharmacy that reached over $500 million in annual revenue and exited to CVS. He shares how rapid growth nearly collapsed the business under its own weight, and why rebuilding three years of books became the turning point that reshaped his approach to leadership, balance, and financial discipline.
🌟 Highlights
"First in, last out": why nobody should care more than the founder
Open-door > top-down: trust, empathy, and letting people make mistakes
Balancing babies: building a company with a newborn, and…
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