
Eric Friend – A Conversation About the 100+ Year Old Friend Family Business of Print
As a print publisher through our quarterly publication called the Operator’s Handbook, I was curious to hear what ideas Eric had on using print as a content medium.

As a print publisher through our quarterly publication called the Operator’s Handbook, I was curious to hear what ideas Eric had on using print as a content medium.

John founded a professional services company in 1984 focused on energy conservation, inspections, and design work for large companies.

I love episodes of family businesses. I’ve become more interested recently in roll-ups, so this was a really fun episode for me.

Chris and I have talked monthly about his search, thoughts on running a small company, the podcast, and all things work and life.

My guests in this episode are Austin Hall and Palmer Higgins. A few months ago, I ran a survey with Think Like An Owner listeners to get feedback on the direction of the podcast.

Ryan DeCaire joined a private equity firm called Ashbridge Partners in Toronto Canada and became the president of the portfolio companies, Geroline, in February 2019.

Sandro is a co-founding partner of Relay Investments, a search investment fund based in Boston that began in 2015. Prior to Relay, Sandro and his partner, Martin launched their own search fund.

Timi is the first CEO in Kingsway Financial CEO Accelerator Program, having acquired an HR and accounting business called the Ravix group in October this year of 2021.

Collin joins me again to more deeply discuss lessons learned through his career of buying and building HVAC and plumbing businesses across the country.

Jason searched and acquired Unified Dental Care, a collection of dental practices in the Detroit Metro in April 2017.