Tyler Hoffman has bought 4 telecom companies with no outside equity, and works 15 hours a week to get to $50m.

Topics in Tyler’s interview:

• Lessons from being fired repeatedly
• Finding and acquiring Metro Wireless
• Filling experience gaps with charisma
• Financing the $4.5 million acquisition
• Navigating a difficult ownership transition
• Discovering hidden operational problems post-close
• Losing half of earnings — and surviving
• Rebuilding Metro Wireless through operational improvements
• 3 tuck-in acquisitions
• Balancing business growth with personal autonomy

References and how to contact Tyler:

• LinkedIn
• Hoffman Capital
• Metro Wireless
• Jeff Homer’s webinar: Architecture of an Entrepreneurial Roll-Up

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• The Acquisition Lab

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Edited by Anton Rohozov and produced by Pam Cameron