Acquiring Minds

Brendan Guerin and three friends bought a Chicago-area dog daycare a few months after college, kept their day jobs, reinvested the roughly…

Tyler Hoffman bought Metro Wireless, a Detroit managed IT and connectivity company, in late 2021 at age 28. After losing a customer that…

Colin King describes building Circle City Capital Group to $33 million of revenue across 17 acquisitions since 2018, ranging from teddy…

Patrick Dunphy bought JS Languages, a low-seven-figure agency that places human interpreters in courts, hospitals, and schools, after…

Jack Rauch and his brother bought Tew & Taylor, a Florida private provider for building plan review and inspections, for $2.1 million…

Kyle Holmes and a course superintendent bought Quail Ridge Golf Club for $7.3 million with no personal cash, using SBA 504 financing,…

Manolo Diaz Corrada returned to Puerto Rico to buy Bonneville Group, a telecom, electrical, and IT contractor doing $12.5 million of…

Morli Desai returns to discuss the liquidation of Amaira Natural Skincare, an e-commerce skincare brand she bought when it had $3.5 million…

Rob Brooks bought Gary Air, a Sarasota HVAC business, and grew it in 14 months from $1.9 million of revenue to more than a $5 million run…

Adam Whelchel bought Lakeland Escape Room after building a $1.5 million accounting firm with 22 remote employees. The escape room had seven…

Mike Bourgeois and a search partner bought Cardinal Heating & Air, a Kirkland HVAC company with $12 million to $15 million of revenue that…

Sujith Shankar, an automotive engineer, bought a boutique auto repair shop near his Orange County home and later added a body shop through…

Courtney and Jonathan Dunn raised a traditional search fund and acquired Cerbo, an EHR platform for cash-pay medical practices such as…

Andrew Sova and Alex Clark acquired Winsor Fireform, a 40-year-old Seattle-area fabricator of porcelain enamel signs used in places such as…

Jeff Homer returns to explain how Ensemble Performing Arts grew from a single $500,000-revenue music school into more than 130 locations…

Neil Finneran returns to describe growing a Mosquito Joe franchise from under $700,000 of revenue to more than $3 million across five…

Jesse Sunquist owns a Mosquito Joe franchise outside Trenton, NJ that he bought three years ago for about $80,000. The business has stayed…

Greyson Boerner bought a 28-year-old church pew restoration shop near his Southern California home about 18 months into his search, paying…

Chibunna Chimezie, a former healthcare investment banker, used an SBA loan to buy Veterans Room, a behavioral health provider for veterans,…

Randy Rempp, a former insurance-turnaround CEO who took a struggling company to $5M EBITDA, raised a search fund and in 2021 closed on…

Gabriel Cruz Avila bought Katy Tile & Marble, a 30-year-old Houston-area tile and remodeling business, for $1.44M with SBA financing in…

Edgar Galindo and a co-orbain used SBA loans to buy an Austin landscaping company, then a complementary Dallas business six months later;…

Raj Mahajan acquired SuperSalon in 2015 via a search fund and converted it from on-premise software into a cloud-based salon POS business,…

Pat Beal, a former B2B SaaS product manager, bought a small commercial HVAC and refrigeration business in Northeast Ohio in May 2024 for…