About this episode
Iris Levine bought a 30-year-old construction firm just steps from the rough Nashville neighborhood where she grew up.
Topics in Iris’s interview:
- Working 3 jobs to pay for college
- Background in high-growth startups
- Forming her own acquisition mastermind group
- Finding an unlisted business through a broker
- Buying a porch construction company
- Putting 5% down without outside investors
- Choosing to forego a quality of earnings
- Adding technology for project management
- Motivation to find work-life flexibility
- Possibility of expanding their offerings
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