Jake Bruton

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371 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard Jul 2025

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · The True Cost of Fixed Fee vs Cost Plus Models · 23 Jul 2025 podcast

Like it was money that I owed to someone else.

Uh, and I went to the lumberyard and said, uh,

I can't pay this bill.

And the majority of it went to the lumber yard.

And I was very lucky that I knew the person that owned the lumber yard since I was a little kid, because I grew up in the industry.

I had worked at that lumber yard for three years during college.

I ran a shift for them.

I had a really great relationship with him.

And he literally said,

how long or how much do you think you could pay off every month without it putting you out of business?

And I said, I absolutely could write you a check for four grand a month without it.

Like,

destroying anything in my business totally and he said okay stop on your way out and talk to gail at the in the accounting office uh tell her what you just told me and we're gonna put it on a personal note between you and i at two and a half percent interest take it off your books at the end of the day today and i'll take it off my books

got it and it took me years to pay it off totally you know totally uh so it was a combination of losing money on that project uh where i was like man i and it was my fault partially and it was partially client fault uh there was some nefarious actions on the part of my client sure uh but

I looked at everything and was like, man, if I was cost plus that none of this would have happened, they wouldn't have had the ability to hose me over in any way.

Uh, and I could have come out of this completely differently.

Sure.

Um, and all of those unforeseens wouldn't have mattered in this way.

And I wouldn't have had, and I just kind of looked at things differently.

And then I started reassessing everything.

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