Stephen Olmon

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3,186 appearances 31 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 5 Aug

Stephen Olmon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Entry & Exit - Inside the Security & Fire Industry · How to Prioritize Growth: A Roadmap for Scaling or Selling Your Service Business · 25 Mar 2026 podcast

But you know that there is a gap, you know, point A to point B that you need to traverse. podcast-host

to kind of maximize your value if you are going to sell podcast-host

the next few years. podcast-host

So what's that playbook is very different than, hey, I'm 43 and I'd love to just run this for a couple more decades and continue to grow and scale, but you're operating at a different pace. podcast-host

You might think about inorganic growth, like acquisitions. podcast-host

You might think about that differently also. podcast-host

So yeah, it's not just one podcast-host

yeah podcast-host

focus on. podcast-host

My, my little add to that is, um, podcast-host

Manage for growth or manage for earnings. podcast-host

You can't really do both at the same time very well. podcast-host

And so if podcast-host

have a short timeline, you need to be managing for earnings. podcast-host

And especially in your last 12 months, like your TTM, like you need to be heavily focused on showing podcast-host

real not not like you know you fired everybody now your earnings look podcast-host

like that's that's not gonna fly um but that's a different play to run than if you do have a much longer time frame you're focused on growing and yes of course like we love earnings they're delicious but you know it's not the core focus like if you're more so in growth mode and we're going to talk more about a playbook and a path that's about kind of growing and scaling over a longer period podcast-host

ahead. podcast-host

I would say we could maybe look back and say that we started to acquire too early because we probably could have gone through something like this playbook and been... podcast-host

more well positioned to execute acquisitions healthier, more methodically. podcast-host

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