How to Grow a Company 150x | Call Dad

Trade Secrets: From the Ground Up | Stories of Operators Who've Seen it All · Jul 16, 2026 · 1h 2m

A rude technician once showed up at Matt Pozda's house, told him to replace his entire AC system, and refused to explain why. That single bad service call is the reason Call Dad exists.

Matt spent about a decade in investment banking before he bought a sub $1M HVAC company in 2017 for roughly $400K. This year it is on track for $60M. He joins Tyson Chen to walk through the whole climb: the company he bought that kept every customer record on whiteboards, the apprenticeship program he built from nothing, and the salmon colored shirts that became both a brand and a filter for who belongs on the…