
About this episode
After seeing 9-figure businesses built through acquisition, Adrian Pinto bought a landscaping biz to build one himself.
Themes from Adrian’s interview:
- Buying a $3-5M landscaping business with 15-20% margins
- Paying 3x, but rapid growth making it more like 2x
- What a buy-side advisor is and when it might make sense to work with one
- How COVID helped his search process
- Why doing his own search was less stressful than a traditional search would have been
- The excitement versus the reality of acquiring bolt-ons to your platform business
- Beginning with the idea of building a strong base for future growth (chassis concept)
- Waiting & observing for months before introducing changes to company processes
Reach Adrian at:
- adrian at georgia scapes dot com
- @Adrian_Pinto2
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