Archibald McLellan

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405 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 22 Apr

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · Don’t Let Weak Process Stop Your Growth with Archibald McLellan · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

And then I got this list of a dozen or two dozen things.

And the contractor looked at me and goes, Arch, that's great.

But these are all the things I expect my project manager and superintendent on site to fix.

okay unless you've got something more important than this finishes this doesn't help me at all i said you know the only thing i can think is you guys probably had a hell of a time with the data in the beginning yeah he goes holy cow let me tell you about the data you know commercial car wash we've got a water retention system the first thing we put in on the site was the water retention system we sunk it in 10 feet of concrete yeah we had to pull it out and

because it was at the wrong level we didn't want to put in a sump pump to draw to put everything in there a station and and he's like and then we did that we put it in what we thought was the new datum the right datum only to find out that wasn't the right datum either and he goes it was six weeks and in tens and twenties of thousands of dollars delay and things and he goes how much did this cost and i was like

was a lot it was a fraction of that yeah and it matched you know the first thing you did was match all the doubt yeah dang well and that's why information is important information is important it really is and and you know more important than that is the humility when you don't have the information to ask ask the question totally totally okay so this was like this was in your in your private equity center why didn't you stay in private equity why did you jump into the business owner world

Um, well, you know, I took us, the next step was, um, I, I decided that, uh, you know, I was a little short on experience.

My, my last experience was 33 years ago, uh, construction, uh, and, and I needed, uh, you know, to get my hands dirty.

So I went to work for a general contractor and I still keep in touch with the private equity guy.

Um, still a mentor of mine and, you know, hoping to work projects now as, as a CBiz, as a CBiz, the company.

Um, uh,

But I went in there and the general contractor looked at me and said, you don't have any construction experience.

I'd built decks.

I'd helped friends build garages.

I'd done small projects.

And I was like, you're right.

And so I agreed.

I said, hey, I'll tell you what.

I'll work for you for 90 days as long as on the 91st day, you sit back down with me and we renegotiate my value to the company.

He goes, okay, well, what kind of compensation do you want?

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