Ep 169: Alex (@aebridgeman) is joined by Amir Haboosheh (@amirhaboosheh)

My guest on this episode is Amir Haboosheh, Co-Founder and CEO of Snowball Industries, a home services holding company with 4 portfolio companies today. Their vision is to build a permanent, publicly traded home for these companies, and Amir and I talk extensively about what an IPO looks like and the benefits and tradeoffs it brings. 

We also talk a lot about empathy, a skill ambitious CEOs cannot get enough of, lessons from Amir’s family on empathy, and how he coaches new managers on empathy and leadership. This conversation had a lot of depth and I think you’ll be able to take away many of these lessons to your own company.

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Links:

Snowball Industries

Amir on LinkedIn

Buffet: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein

Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters

$FIX - Comfort Systems

John Wilson on Think Like an Owner

Color Code

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:03:45) Favorite Warren Buffet Lessons: Reputations

(00:07:28) Being flexible in purchase agreements

(00:09:31) Snowball’s Origin and business strategy

(00:14:52) Home Services companies going Public

(00:16:48) Revenue required to go Public

(00:19:27) How the role of the CEO changes through company growth and Going Public

(00:25:45) The power and importance of Empathy

(00:41:28) Screening for empathy in candidates

(00:44:14) Color Code

(00:49:06) Giving feedback

(00:53:35) Leaning on a board for expertise

(00:57:29) What strongly held belief have you changed your mind on?

(01:00:01) What’s the best business you’ve ever seen?