
Life as an Operator: Leaving PE to Buy a $2m Tree Business
Acquiring Minds
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The Importance of Having a Good Culture in Tree Work
In these really fragmented situations where acquisitions might be tiny, it's just a way it's acquisition of your tiny competitor is a euphemism for hiring. You're basically getting labor and that can be really valuable. For the guys that it's a job, like a tree to be removed represents money, right? It's like pretty straightforward. But then there's this like big amount of people in between those two ends that are like, hey, like they love the job. They need to make money. And I think there's an like you kind of have to have like a deep respect for what trees are. The fact that we can take a tree down that has been around 50 years in
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