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How a Laundromat Chain Hit 30x EBITDA with Data
In Episode 67 of The Buyer & Seller Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack an astonishing small-business exit: a three-location laundromat chain in suburban Chicago that sold for 30 times EBITDA. The premium wasn't from real estate or even revenue — it came from proprietary data on machine utilization, detergent refill cycles, and customer dwell time. Lucas walks through how the owner embedded IoT sensors in washers and dryers, built a subscription refill model, and sold the data to a commercial equipment manufacturer. Luna presses on whether the 'data premium' is replicable for other…
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