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Gant Elmore and Matt Moldenhauer each bought $2m businesses they built over years. Today their holdco does over $200m.
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Topics in Matt & Gant’s interview:
- 3 generations of acquisition entrepreneurs
- Matt started as operator, became partner
- Bain mentors warned Matt not to do ETA
- Goal of owning 50 companies by 2050
- Being the Ferrari in a price-competitive industry
- Why they prefer holding to exiting
- Challenge of giving control to an operator
- Gant and his dad teach ETA together
- War stories from small business operations
- Demand exceeds supply of great businesses
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