HoldCo Builders How I Bought 12 Small Business in 18 Months (Revenue $13M) | Jeremy Harbour Interview
Jeremy has bought and sold over 100 businesses, but never uses a broker.
- Treat a company like a product. You buy one and then you sell it
- Again, never use brokers!
- Buy right and you’re gonna win
- Do more of what works
- Joint ventures and the beauty of it
Great story with Jeremy building a holding company in Dubai while the team is based in Singapore.
Important note: he does all that while traveling twice a month with the family.
Enjoy!
Show notes:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:29 - First acquisition
00:09:51 - Competition on $2-5m deals vs $10m deals
00:12:31 - Early days and growth from 25 employees to 135 employees
00:17:31 - Having a big income vs. selling the business and putting the profits into a new business
00:26:19 - Never use brokers: how to find the best companies and build a pipeline of 100 companies
00:35:37 - Characteristics of companies they acquire today
00:40:10 - Buy-and-sell vs building a huge holding company
00:42:55 - Post acquisition: "I delegate everything, I never show up, and they don't even know me"
00:45:22 - Portfolio company as of today
00:50:28 - Still terrible at fundraising
00:53:09 - Why not raise $200 million and go big
00:55:03 - Doing more of what works
00:56:32 - Joint ventures and the beauty of it
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