New Podcast: How This Former VC-Backed Entrepreneur Started A Holding Company With 3 Acquisitions And 2 Startups

Hello SMB Deal Hunters!

I’m excited to share a new interview with Chase Murdock, a former VC-backed entrepreneur who now owns a holding company, Decada Group.

Through Decada Group, Chase has made 3 acquisitions and started 2 companies in Salt Lake City–all without taking any outside investor capital.

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INTERVIEW

In the interview with Chase, we discuss:

• Skillsets of someone who is a 0-1 entrepreneur vs a 1-10 entrepreneur

• What it’s like to run a lifestyle holding company where the goal is to create a day to day that you don’t have to retire from

• How Chase 4-5xed his first acquisition, Workshop SLC, in its first year (and then again in its second year!)

• How Chase acquired a construction company and electrical contractor company 90 days later

• How to plug in operators and support a management team

• The one thing that makes a good operator vs a great operator

• And more!

👉 Watch the full 51-minute interview with Chase

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