Brandon Dawson

The experience was unbelievable.

But trying to go from zero to 75 million in three years, buying 130 businesses was not easy.

It taught me a lot.

I learned a lot about Wall Street.

And then one day, right at the point where I was going to be unbelievably valuable, they said, we're selling your company.

So I didn't get fired.

They just sold it out from underneath me.

And I went and started over.

Sonos.

Yeah.

S-O-N-U-S.

Patience, perseverance, and persistence.

Because I made hundreds of presentations.

I was laughed out of most of them, to be honest with you.

I had a deal full of a half a billion of businesses.

I couldn't raise enough money fast enough to close on them.

I couldn't integrate them fast enough.

I couldn't systematize them.

You know, this whole idea of creating a platform company where you're 125 to 175 million, you have all the technology, all the systems, all the people, all the leadership, all the marketing, sales, everything's perfect, everything's flawless.

It sounds great, but it was a beast trying to shove it all together in five, six years.