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After years of corporate success, Jesus Wong yearned for something else. When he discovered ETA, he knew he'd found it.
Topics in Jesus’s interview:
- Childhood in Mexico and Canada
- Family history of entrepreneurship
- Buying a Canadian garment repair business
- Low capex, high labor costs
- Structuring his deal without the SBA
- Mitigating the risk of high customer concentration
- Value of a high-quality deal team
- Higher closing costs in Canada
- Paying 5% interest on his loan
- Answering the call of entrepreneurship
References and how to contact Jesus:
- Gear re-Store
- Vail Resorts
- Patagonia
- Scott Walton on Acquiring Minds: Building a $10m Platform from 2 Low-SDE Businesses
- Andrew Stordeur on Acquiring Minds: $700k EBITDA with No SBA, No Money Down
- Yan Vinarskiy on Acquiring Minds: From Searcher to Sponsor: How to Buy a $22m Business
- Marc Nzojibwami on Acquiring Minds: The Model for a 3-Way, Long-Term Holdco
- Haifeng Hu of Bennett Jones
- Kevin Yu of MNP
- Joey Tai of Crete Capital
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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron
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