ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Onu Okebie and Brian Boland wanted to retain 100% ownership when they began, so they used an SBA loan. It has paid off.
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Topics in Brian and Onu’s interview:
- Forming a partnership in business school
- Searching for 2.5 years
- Closing on their first business while still in school
- Bootstrapping their first acquisition
- Sacrifice and long commute the first year
- Willingness to “be bad at something”
- Complexity of niche/time-sensitive freight
- Athletic grit carried them through acquisition challenges
- Learning to pitch to investors
- 5 acquisitions in less than 5 years
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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron
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