Despite skepticism from her US investors, Ivona Butcher bought (and tripled) a business in her native Czech Republic.
Topics in Ivona’s interview:
- Doing business in a post-Soviet culture
- Determination to acquire in the Czech Republic
- Buying a business as a married couple
- Getting into exhibition services right before Covid
- Losing all revenue at onset of Covid
- Pivoting to virtual events
- Finding work for their carpenters and metalsmiths
- Aggressively re-negotiating their loan with the bank
- Buying back the seller note at a huge discount
- Surviving Covid and doubling EBITDA
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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron
