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When to Buy a Large Consumer Business

Will Smith
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Taylor Mattingly found high-quality revenue in an unusual and sizable B2C business that he happened to be a customer of.

Topics in Taylor’s interview:

  • Being Co-CEO with his best friend
  • Buying a business he was a customer of
  • Acquiring a business in his hometown
  • Confusing, deregulated Texas energy market
  • How Energy Ogre differs from a typical broker
  • Keeping his call center in Texas
  • “Set it and forget it” model
  • “Listening tour” in the first 100 days
  • Adopting the EOS model
  • Higher leverage deal structure

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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron

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