Gabe Joseph
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319 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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The mistake is to put the emphasis on the nuts and bolts and the materials and the subs and all of that.
What I always have told people is that, you know, this is the home team and everybody else is that's excluding clients.
Obviously, everybody else is the enemy.
Everybody else is trying to take something away from this business.
And so our position has to be defense first and then offense second.
Literally the other 90% of the time because the sub aren't your friend.
They're trying to take something away.
We're trying to take more for them than they are for you.
I turn over about half our subs every year.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
I don't believe for a second in this idea that you have to have long-term friendly relationships with subcontractors.
That's just not true.
might be a little contrarian on this but what i found is that half our subs are long-term relationships great people who run well-run businesses the other half are people who maybe are good or technically good but they run a shitty business and that's the most expensive mistake it's usually not somebody you hire directly it's people leaving things out of the bid or hitting you with you know change orders that make no sense or uh you know who just have no
financial system or acumen whatsoever i mean literally like invoices written on the like ticket book they use it you know sonic it's crazy yeah but so i don't i don't have any and there is there's a lot so there is no need to keep them and to you know to work with them and to you know be friends with them and all this stuff i think that's actually counterproductive every city has a huge volume of capable qualified people that can actually do the work you just gotta find it
yeah and like why would you why would you trust like you look at like the average i'm going to pick on drywall guys you look at a drywall company that has like their girlfriend running quickbooks because she took a two-hour class and that's the entire operational structure of that and you're going to trust them with a few million dollars worth of work like no other business does that uh except for residential construction commercial construction doesn't do that everything is buttoned up really tight
And so, yeah, to me it's like, well, just because other people in the market do that, is that smart?
Does that really make a lot of sense?
I've never gotten past that, that viewpoint.
Yeah, that's right.
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