Acquiring Minds Birth of a Holdco (with 15 Acquisitions to Date)
Dec 6, 2022
01:06:44
Trevor Boehm shares how Saturn Five started as a venture studio but found buying small businesses a better model.
Topics in Trevor's interview:
- First rule of holdcos: Do No Harm
- Benefits of buying businesses in a single geography
- What makes for a good owner-operator?
- How Saturn Five finds operators
- Loneliness as owner-operator of a small business
- Great hack for new owner-operators
- Why "boring" businesses aren't boring
- Advice to someone considering buying a small business
- Advice to entrepreneurs wanting to build a holdco
- Who is Saturn Five (and why you haven't heard of them)
Links & how to contact Trevor:
- Saturn Five
- Acquiring Minds episode with Andrew Harbin discussing loneliness as a new SMB owner [at 1:02:10]
- Acquiring Minds episode with Cassi Neikamp discussing building an industry mastermind to combat loneliness & speed learning [at 58:19]
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