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You’ve been told to protect margin at all costs. What if that advice is actually leaving millions on the table when you sell?
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In this installment of the Portus Perspectives series, William shares a lunch meeting that stopped him in his tracks. A founder in the trades business who grew his company from $12.5 million to $50 million in revenue over three years with margin intact the entire way. By any measure, an extraordinary achievement.
But during that lunch, the phone rang. Twice. And both times the founder stepped away to answer project management questions on an active job site.
No COO. No project managers to absorb those calls. Just the founder, still grinding it out at the center of everything, pulling a $50 million business forward through sheer force of will.
William walked him through a simple piece of math that reframes the entire margin conversation.
Take a business doing $10 million in net profit trading at a four times multiple. That is a $40 million business. Now invest $1 million into a COO and a layer of project management. Net profit drops to $9 million. But the business now runs without the founder in every conversation. The multiple moves from four to five. Nine times five is $45 million.
Push that multiple to six and you are at $54 million. A $14 million increase in business value on a $1 million investment, even with lower net income.
Margin matters. But multiple is what determines what you actually walk away with at the closing table. And the fastest way to move your multiple is to build a business that does not need you to answer the phone.
Key Topics Covered:
- The $12.5M to $50M Story: Explosive growth in the trades with margin intact but no executive team in place.
- The Phone Call Problem: Why a founder still answering project management calls is a valuation problem.
- The Margin vs Multiple Math: A simple example showing how a $1M investment can create $14M in exit value.
- Why You Are Not Publicly Traded: Why a quarter or two of compressed margin is worth the long term gain.
- Building the Team Around You: What it actually takes to stop being the bottleneck in a fast growing business.
- Reinvest to Increase Value: Why the path to a higher multiple runs through your org chart, not your P&L.
If you have been running hard to protect margin without thinking about what your multiple could be, this episode will change how you look at every hiring decision you make from here on out.
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ORIGINAL MEDIA SOURCE(S): William Bissett: Why Protecting Margin Might Be Costing You Millions at Exit | Portus Perspectives
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Portus Perspectives: Episode 57
00:00 The $12.5M to $50M Growth Story
00:30 The Problem With Answering Project Management Calls at Lunch
01:00 Why No COO Is a Valuation Problem
02:00 The Margin vs Multiple Math Explained
03:00 How a $1M Investment Can Create $14M in Exit Value
03:30 Why Compressed Margin for a Quarter Is Worth It
04:00 Reinvest in Your Team to Increase Your Multiple
04:30 Margin Is Important But So Is Multiple
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