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Jerod Pierce bought an HVAC business with $500k of SDE. Five years later, private equity was desperate to buy him out.
Topics in Jerod’s interview:
- Challenging upbringing in foster care
- Adaptability as a survival skill
- Joining the investment club in college
- Getting his MBA from Harvard Business School
- Learning about ETA from Rick and Royce
- Searching only in Seattle by cold calling
- Buying HVAC before it was cool
- Value of being there every day
- Exiting for $90 million-ish
- His nightmare second acquisition
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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron
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