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Nov 2024
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$6m Business, 3 Minutes From Childhood H...

Will Smith
About this episode

Iris Levine bought a 30-year-old construction firm just steps from the rough Nashville neighborhood where she grew up.

Topics in Iris’s interview:

  • Working 3 jobs to pay for college
  • Background in high-growth startups
  • Forming her own acquisition mastermind group
  • Finding an unlisted business through a broker
  • Buying a porch construction company
  • Putting 5% down without outside investors
  • Choosing to forego a quality of earnings
  • Adding technology for project management
  • Motivation to find work-life flexibility
  • Possibility of expanding their offerings

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