Eric Zhu
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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It initially started as like a different business.
It was more of like a lot of private equity firms are buying out small businesses.
So what they were doing would be like, you know, looking at like a car dealership.
They they were basically buying in aggregates, right?
Car dealerships, car washers, laundromats.
And they they they were essentially buying them in bulk and they were kind of rolling them up together.
And so the other was really interesting.
So initially how it started.
It was actually a data engine for small businesses.
Can we find small businesses, figure out a way to extract more data than anyone else on it on the internet and then kind of sell it to like these P firms?
But ended up the the it ended up not working out in a sense where like P firms had more data.
So what what we had access to was internet data, all right, which is like off all the data on the car dealerships, so on and so forth.
Which is
But the models that you could actually build around there were very, very um, you know, s
simple, right?
In a sense where it's like, okay, let's just say, hey, if we're gonna underwrite this car dealership or this car wash, um, in like Minnesota, uh, the income range was X amount high so that this car wash could uh have more more more more people.
Oh the
You know, that that's like the kind of like insights that we were able to derive and and it wasn't that useful.
You know, versus like uh when private firms literally came into these uh had people that that they hired to survey these and and call these people
and then get more data than anyone else.
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