About this episode
Taylor Wallace was over tech. He acquired a small business and with it a renewed sense of impact (and opportunity).
Topics in Taylor's interview:
- Tech burnout
- Working in tech vs. running a small business
- Buying indy vs. franchise
- Injecting tech-industry best practices & ambition into small business
- How do friends in tech respond to his foray into doggy daycares?
- Going from digital nomad to brick-and-mortar business owner in Tampa
- Increasing doggy daycare capacity 2x
- Will more than 2x revenue by next year
- What he paid (roughly) for 1st and 2nd acquisitions
- Growth strategy
- Buying small vs. buying big
- Doggy daycare business - should you do it?
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