Buyers and Builders

Amir Haboosheh cofounded Snowball Industries in 2020.

In 2023, they generate more than $45 million in revenue.

Prior to Snowball he was director of M&A at Kingmakers/Acquira in charge of helping identify, acquire, finance and scale businesses in the home service sector. Amir leads Snowball where he has structured a high-performing team culture based on empowerment and accountability.

On this episode, PrivatEquityGuy & Amir discuss:

- fascinating story of how Amir found his co-founders & how with one meeting from 10AM to 8PM they we are all on the same page: "Let's do it!"

- why HVAC and plumbing?

- how they motivate people to do great work - how to make sure people get the right amount of shares - not too much and not too little

- how they grew one portfolio company (that DIDN'T even have a website) from $10 million to $21 million in revenue and 40k montly visits in three years.

- how SEO plays a big role in their success (so much so that they even bought an online marketing company)

- Amir revealed his plan for 2027 (listening this, well, there are levels to this game, seriously!)

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Akshay Ramachandran is a semi-retired investor in his 20s. Akshay's most recent job was being sole analyst reporting directly to the portfolio manager. They analyzed over 60 industries and used a simple strategy: buy and hold great businesses run by great management teams. He has taken the last year off for some time traveling around the world.

On this episode, PrivatEquityGuy & Akshay discuss:

• Lessons Akshay learned as a professional investor at a 9 figure hedge fund
• How to put together a great investor deck for your Holding Company (and why 99% of decks suck; mine included)
• Why Ashtead Group and United Rental have the greatest investor decks
• Why reading and thinking is the smartest thing you can do as an investor
• Reasearch process: Trusting management teams vs not trusting management teams
• "If I don't hit these numbers, I'm willing to go to jail" - what happened next was surprising

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Links:

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Akshay's online course: The Investor Operating System