Finding a Good Business After 2+ Years of Searching
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Ryan Doyle was 2 long years into searching when he walked away from a deal, but he was rewarded for the self discipline.
Topics in Ryan’s interview:
- Lessons learned from a failed deal
- Value of a thorough quality of earnings investigation
- Why “stupid good margins” are a bad sign
- Buying a residential pool business in the Golden Isles of Georgia
- Being ghosted by his bookkeeper after transition
- His intern who stepped in after the bookkeeper disappeared
- Why Ryan’s business doesn’t do pool construction
- What he likes about seasonality
- His plan to own the Georgia coast
- His WhatsApp search support “pod”
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