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Tracy Alloway

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1768 total appearances

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Big, big overlap.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

So Top Bill is a very well-known company.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

It's the number one company in its field.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

So it's pretty easy to check them out.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

We knew what we were getting before we did those interviews over two days.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

But still, you want to talk to the people.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

You want to find out where are the skeletons and what are the risks and what are the good things and where's the opportunities and where's the upside and what are some things you can bring to the table, particularly in terms of technology that could โ€“

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

turbocharge the growth of the company.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

So those in-person meetings are very important.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

It's not the only part of due diligence.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

You do a lot of stuff online.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

You do a lot of stuff with third-party channel checks.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

But those in-person meetings with the management team are absolutely crucial.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

I would never buy a company, any company, without doing management interviews.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

That's the most important part of due diligence.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

It's funny, I was hanging out with some people over the weekend and I was hearing about some deals that they were doing in the AI space, including a pretty large deal that apparently they completed in an afternoon.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

And you can imagine what the due diligence process is on a deal that's completed in a single afternoon.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

I don't know how to do that yet.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

That's over my capabilities, but it doesn't take a long time.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

We're surgical and...