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The Think Like an Owner podcast seeks out conversations with small company owners and investors to learn how to acquire and run small companies, with a focus on search funds, micro private equity, and permanent capital.

Episode 167

Chris Hoffmann – Building Scale in Home Services – Ep.167

My guest, Chris Hoffman, is the President and CEO of Hoffman Brothers, a home services business based in St. Louis. Hoffman Brothers have scaled from $10 million in 2015 to over $100 million in revenue in 2023.

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Episode 165

Chenmark Series 3: Recruiting CEOs and Future Planning

This third episode takes a deep dive into their CEO recruiting function and what has to happen to keep Chenmark on its growth trajectory.

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Episode 164

Chenmark Series 2: Ethos and Incentives

This episode is the second in a three-part series we are running on Chenmark, a highly successful small business holding company founded in 2015.

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Episode 162

Orlando Remak and Jalen Ross – HOA Management Holding Company

My guests on this episode are Jalen Ross and Orlando Remak, cofounders of CAM Collective, a holding company for association management companies like HOAs founded in April 2022.

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Episode 158

Trilogy Search Series Ep.6: Stijn Hendrikse

This is the last of a six-episode series with Trilogy Search Partners focused on Search, Search-backed acquisitions, and small business operations.

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Episode 156

Sandy Paige – Managing Teams for Scale

My guest on this episode is Sandy Paige. Sandy has been an operator several times over his career. He’s also an outlier in being one of, if not the, oldest searchers.

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Episode 150

Alex de Pfyffer & Ross Porter – Investing Strategies in Data

My guests on this episode are Heritage Holding co-founders Alex de Pfyffer and Ross Porter.

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Episode 149

Johnny Lieberman & Zack Miller – “Only the Paranoid Survive”

My guests on this episode are Johnny Lieberman and Zack Miller, who together founded Worklyn Partners to acquire and grow cybersecurity and IT services companies.

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Episode 148

Richard Reese – Designing Incentives at Iron Mountain

Richard took over as CEO of Iron Mountain, a physical records management business, in 1981.

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Episode 142

A.J. Wasserstein – Living a Happier Life

Early in his career, A.J. founded Archives One, a physical records management business he operated as CEO for 17 years before selling to Iron Mountain.

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