5x in 5 Years: Buying Small to Grow Quickly

Holdco entrepreneur Chase Murdock buys very small businesses with potential for rapid growth & decades of staying power.

Topics in Chase’s interview:

• Starting a custom suit company with $750
• Decata Group's “car wash integration process” for acquisitions
• Workshop SLC’s 5x growth in the first year of acquisition
• Getting out of the “small business death zone” ASAP
• The knife fight of acquiring and growing small businesses
• The #1 ingredient in company building
• Maslow’s hierarchy of business needs
• What surprised him about the trades industry
• Conviction in the ability to 5x a business in 5 years
• The intellectual challenge of building a holdco

Links and how to contact Chase:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Decada Group
• Tailor Cooperative
• Workshop SLC
• Built by Design Construction
• Northern Electric Company
• Tatton Baird

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