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Justin Ishbia

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

And this is my factory floor where I call it lift and shift.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

I am getting the newer companies to where they need to go faster.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

And an example of that would be orthodontics business.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

It's a B2C sort of marketing engine.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

Now, SEO marketing and sort of direct marketing to a customer for orthodontics

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

It took us years to build a platform to get to the right system, process, metrics we use.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

About a year ago, we bought a MedSpot business.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

The marketing is very similar.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

It's B2C as well.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

And so we lift and shift.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

Adam's job is to help recruit, take the incumbent marketing leader, work with them, and throw the right person for a long-term grade.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

If not, over time, work with the CEO to help top grade that individual.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

But then lift and shift the systems and processes and tech stack from marketing in the orthodontics business and apply it to the MedSpot business or apply it to the veterinary business.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

There's so many different personas we have that things change a little bit.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

But that whole entire journey is, I think, some of the secret sauce.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

And it's not replicable unless you hire the right people to do it.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

I like to think of it as we have billion-dollar company resources applying to million-dollar companies.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

And so a woman named Julianne Larimer is a leader of our division.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

She's a former private equity-backed CEO, incredibly talented.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]

She runs the whole entire group.