Mike Barnhart
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141 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Mike Barnhart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah. I mean it is actually strange. So I'm from Ohio and it feels like – and the Buckeyes are big. But wherever I travel, people are wearing – I'll be in the most random places and I'll see people wearing Ohio State. Oh, yeah. Ohio State stuff. Like I was doing the running of the bulls and the guy is wearing an Ohio State hat. I was like, we're in the middle of Spain.
I think I have children, and you think about what kind of life you want for them. Do you really want your children to be happy? I don't know that – I'm not sure that I need them to be happy, but I do want them to live a life that has purpose and that they feel like I'm doing something that's important. I feel that way when I come to work every day. So to me, it's like –
this is something that I'm doing to show the appreciation that I have for my team that's out there every day. I mean, you guys have nice weather here. It was negative, you know, five degrees in Ohio yesterday. So, you know, that they're out there every day, they're working so hard. They're, you know, in these trades that are really helping their community. And I want to see people win big.
And so, and I want to see people celebrate things in their lives and, and, So, you know, as long as you're feeling content that you have a sense of purpose in what you're doing, it doesn't really feel like work to me. I've never been good at separating work and life.
I should be probably maybe somewhat better at it, but I really like both aspects of it. And I do travel a lot, so I like to get out and have fun too.
Yeah, the best way to get is my email. It's mike at geteco.com, G-E-T-E-C-O.com, or hit me up on LinkedIn. LinkedIn, there you go.
I have it right here, but... Barnhart, B-A-R-N-H-A-R-T.
Why? Uh, yeah, a few of them. Um, I always pick a book from my favorite year. So in 2022, I loved The Almanac of Naval Ravikant, talking about wealth and happiness. In 2023, I read this book called Unreasonable Hospitality. So I'm always the bougie one in the company. I'm the one that likes to buy Cristal to celebrate if we're winning a month or something like that. I like nice things.
I like fine dining. It's a book called Unreasonable Hospitality. It's really good. It's about Eleven Madison Park, which these two guys got really obsessive about food and customer service and being the best at what they do. They were an unknown restaurant, and they became the number one rated restaurant in the entire world for two years in a row, and it only took them about seven years to do it.
And that was a really cool journey of their story. If you ever just need an audio book, you can't go wrong with Greenlights. It's just a fun one. Yeah.
yeah i mean most off i just feel a deep sense of appreciation um yeah i've loved the partnership that i've had with aaron i've loved you know the partnership that i've had a lot you know as you become bigger it's really hard to build those relationships but you know whether it's jack or elliott or barbara or different people that have come and gone on the team you know just building those relationships with them
has been a great experience. And I feel really proud of what we've accomplished. So there's a real sense of pride. And I don't really think necessarily about like, I have this abundance mindset. I always have, like I'm the eternal optimist. I don't really get, like, all right, we need to protect it. I just think, like, we're going to lose it. I just think, like, what's next?
You know, what are we going to do next? And how are we going to keep innovating? How are we going to keep, like, modernizing the home experience for the customers? How are we, you know, just going to stay on top of our game? Because, you know, whether you're acquisition, whether you're greenfield, you know, the world is ours to go take, you know, like, There's no reason for 100 million today.
It can't be 500 million in five years or whatever. You know, whatever you want to do is is possible if you're willing to put the effort in and do it.
Well, I mean I certainly agree with you that you should build your company and sell it. Even if you are planning a transaction, you should never say, I'm going to operate my company differently because I plan on transacting in 12 months, and I'm going to cut all this stuff.
You should operate your company like you're going to continue to run it forever, but it's going to be a profitable company at any given point in the next – if we want to sell sometime in the next 10 years. At any given point in that time, I should always be happy with where I'm at and to sell it.
Yeah.
But even when you look at the reports that are out there still, I mean, both our industries are so heavily fragmented. It's like even with PE coming in, they still only own a very small percentage of the total. What do you see the percentage being? I'm just curious. I haven't looked at that recently. Yeah, I mean, there's some reports that come out each year.
You have to usually pay for them to get them, but they're usually pretty solid reports. And, you know, it's about 12% in the HVAC plumbing electric industry. You know, for us, we have we do have a little bit different strategy. Like we know we're we're really good plumbers and we're learning HVAC and electric.
So we have a little bit different strategy of how to grow there than maybe some other PE groups do. But Overall, I just think that it's still a very open market to do whatever you want to do.
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