The Importance of Platform Companies in Consolidation Strategies

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I recently published a blog post, Why You May Want to Reconsider Your Industry Roll-up Strategy, within which I detailed many of the ways in which consolidation strategies can go wrong. In today’s episode, I want to look at the opposite side of that coin and dig deeply into an instance where a consolidation strategy went very right.

I'm joined today by Jay Davis & Jason Pananos, who, after graduating from business school in 2008, acquired Vector Disease Control, a company that they grew from ~$7M to ~$50M in revenue in ~7 years through successfully executing on 14 bolt-on acquisitions.