Holdco Origin Story: The Bumpy Road to $3m EBITDA

Acquiring Minds

4 acquisitions, 3 years after the first deal, and 2 dishonest sellers before Chandra Rao went full-time in his holdco.

Topics in Chandra’s interview:

• Learning from due diligence mistakes
• Losing $300k in the first year
• Challenges with payment terms and working capital
• True value of a seller note
• One of his partners embezzled from the companyFppp
• Choosing a conventional loan over SBA
• The electrical contracting and fiber optic cabling businesses
• 6x growth in 4 years
• Juggling a roll-up and a W-2
• A seller who committed fraud

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• Miller Utilities

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