Private Equity, SMB Rollups, & Growth

The pace of change is slow, competition is fragmented, and operator sophistication is lower.

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Andy Walker
August 14, 2024

Private Equity, Rollups, & Growth

Welcome to the Home Service Marketer newsletter.

These are my own independent thoughts, and I am writing about topics that interest me. I hope you enjoy this journey of learning alongside me.

In today’s newsletter, we are going to cover a topic I’ve been fascinated by:

  • Private Equity Rollups

  • Growth through acquisitions

It is approximately a 4-minute read.

What’s going on in this space?

Over the past decade, there has been a surge of private equity into the home services space, rolling up and attempting to consolidate fragmented industries.

In my opinion we will continue to see an influx of capital and smart operators moving out of tech into the home service space. Why? Because competition is less.

In tech, things move and change at warp speed. Home services are often labeled “boring,” and that is exactly why they are great businesses.

The pace of change is slow, competition is fragmented, and operator sophistication is lower.

Does this ring a bell? This is exactly what we talked about in last week’s newsletter covering Alex Hormozi’s strategy.

Growth Through Acquisition

If you are currently operating a home service business, acquisitions should be somewhere in your mind.

At a certain point, you can only generate so much revenue in one geographic location.

This leads to three options:

  • Offer additional services to your customers

  • Expand geographically to a new market

  • Acquire existing competitors within your market or in new territories.

None of the options are easy and an acquisition strategy is probably the most complex of it all. Deal structure, company integration, churn risk, and culture to name a few. However, complexity is what presents the opportunity.

If you know numbers, can evaluate risk, and structure a deal in a format of heads we win, tails we lose a little, you have the opportunity to stay in the game and win big.

Those who can simplify complexity will continue to be compensated well.

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