When to Buy a Large Consumer Business

Taylor Mattingly found high-quality revenue in an unusual and sizable B2C business that he happened to be a customer of.

Topics in Taylor’s interview:

• Being Co-CEO with his best friend
• Buying a business he was a customer of
• Acquiring a business in his hometown
• Confusing, deregulated Texas energy market
• How Energy Ogre differs from a typical broker
• Keeping his call center in Texas
• “Set it and forget it” model
• “Listening tour” in the first 100 days
• Adopting the EOS model
• Higher leverage deal structure

References and how to contact Taylor:

• LinkedIn
• Energy Ogre

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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron