
About this episode
Holdco entrepreneur Chase Murdock buys very small businesses with potential for rapid growth & decades of staying power.
Topics in Chase’s interview:
- Starting a custom suit company with $750
- Decata Group's “car wash integration process” for acquisitions
- Workshop SLC’s 5x growth in the first year of acquisition
- Getting out of the “small business death zone” ASAP
- The knife fight of acquiring and growing small businesses
- The #1 ingredient in company building
- Maslow’s hierarchy of business needs
- What surprised him about the trades industry
- Conviction in the ability to 5x a business in 5 years
- The intellectual challenge of building a holdco
Links and how to contact Chase:
- Decada Group
- Tailor Cooperative
- Workshop SLC
- Built by Design Construction
- Northern Electric Company
- Tatton Baird
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