Brandon Dawson
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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And then all of a sudden by eight, nine, 10, I was Inc.
500, Inc.
5,000, fastest growing this, fastest growing that, entrepreneur of the year.
And so I hired a research firm when the market went to shit in 2009 because of the real estate space.
And I was able to hire FTI, a billion dollar research firm.
And I looked at 10,000 verticals.
I hired eight people inside from Wharton and Stanford
And I wanted to understand what makes businesses work, what causes them to fails, what are the things that we could create from an infrastructure?
And I built what I call now the transformational growth platform, which is taking belief, operational effectiveness, and leadership.
And in the center of all that
scaling it from zero to a billion.
There's 11 breakpoints from startup to a billion dollars.
We identified seven from zero to 125 million and just reverse engineered based on the businesses approved.
They could become a platform, exactly what's involved with doing it.
And I built basically 10 elements, 76 sub elements and 240 things.
You got to master to get to 125 million and then it multiplies that to get to a billion.
And I built it all off the research with the idea that when I sold my business, I was going to start a new company.
which is Cardo Mentors now.
One of my mentors told me in 2013, you can't just go start a whole bunch of new companies if you don't prove this concept to work where you're using a shared equity model with your clients versus a crammed down acquiring model.
You got to prove the cycle.
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