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Tracy Alloway

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1938 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

And the other side, you're, yeah, great, I got a storm.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Got a hail storm.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Isn't that fantastic?

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

These people's roofs are all going to go flying off.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

We're going to get more business.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

So the good or bad news, depending on your perspective, is in 2025, there really weren't any big storms.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

There weren't any named storms, big hurricanes, tornadoes.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

So that was bad.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

And compounding on that, in the first quarter here,

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

You had the bad kind of bad weather, which is snow and other bad weather that just slowed everything down, just stopped business, but didn't create any demand from roofs.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Didn't create any roof damage.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Exactly.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

So the external conditions haven't been great.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Now, that said, I don't care because I'm not building a business for one year or two years or three years like I did in my previous companies.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

I'm building...

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

a strong, durable, iconic company that's going to be around for decades.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

And that's what I think.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

We're always thinking about long-term.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

We're thinking five, 10 years.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

We're not thinking about a quarter or the year.