
About this episode
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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