Buying for $600k, Selling for $35m

Jake Bittner bought an unprofitable carve-out doing $3m. A key pivot grew revenue to $20m and got the attention of PE.

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Topics in Jake’s interview:

• Building a nest egg before leaving his job
• Fallout from his father’s failed businesses
• Calculating the value of a business losing money
• Disliking the bureaucracy of large companies
• Joining his friend to run a distressed company
• Employee war stories
• Changing the service they offered
• Achieving 60% margins 
• Boosting customer retention
• Selling the company for 11x earnings

References and how to contact Jake:

• LinkedIn
• Mission Support Partners

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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron