These “Boring Businesses” Will Make You Rich

Mindy:
Welcome to the BiggerPockets Cash podcast the place we interview Codie Sanchez and speak in regards to the asset class of boring companies. Howdy, hiya, hiya. My identify is Mindy Jensen and with me as at all times is my future boring enterprise shopping for co-host Scott Trench.

Scott:
Thanks, Mindy. I’m going to strive to try this whereas being the world’s best EBITDA.

Mindy:
You’re going to need to make clear what EBITDA is. I nonetheless don’t know, and I hear you say that on a regular basis. Scott and I are right here to make monetary independence much less scary, regardless that he makes use of bizarre phrases like EBITDA. We’re right here to make monetary independence much less only for someone else, to introduce you to each cash story as a result of we really imagine monetary freedom is attainable for everybody irrespective of the place or when you find yourself beginning.

Scott:
That’s proper. Whether or not you need to retire early and journey the world, go on to make large time investments and belongings like actual property, begin your personal enterprise or just enhance your EBITDA. We’ll enable you attain your monetary objectives and get cash out of the way in which so you may launch your self in direction of these desires.

Mindy:
Okay, Scott, to begin with, spell out EBITDA after which inform us what that is, as a result of I don’t know what that is, regardless that I hear you say it each single month.

Scott:
EBITDA or EBITDA pronounced each methods I’ve heard, is earnings earlier than curiosity, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. It’s a means of factoring out all of the noise in a enterprise’s revenue and loss assertion to get at an approximation of money circulate. And it’s helpful more often than not in valuing companies. It’s imperfect, like all approximation of profitability is imperfect, but it surely’s what number of companies are valued, relies on a a number of of EBITDAs, in keeping with how we’d worth a business property. We’d say we’d take the web working earnings, NOI, and apply a cap charge to it or a number of to it, and also you do the identical factor in companies to worth them. And one other frequent time period that you just’ll hear to explain this whenever you’re companies is SDE, which stands for vendor’s discretionary earnings.
And it’s one other means of describing the profitability of a enterprise. So if a enterprise brings in $600,000 in revenue, the proprietor pays themselves a wage of 200,000 and there’s 400,000 in EBITDA. We might name that enterprise as having an SDE of $600,000. Once more, a simplistic instance, however the companies we’re going to speak to Codie Sanchez immediately who’s one among my favourite influencers traders on the web. I really like every part she places out and suppose she has a incredible thesis. She’s going to purchase companies which can be valued on a multiples of both EBITDA or SDE.

Mindy:
Scott, I discovered a lot speaking with, I can’t even say speaking with, listening to Codie give a very nice overview of how she values companies, how she seems for companies, how she finds companies, and the way she buys these companies, how she funds them. That is only a tremendous superior episode. Should you listened to episode 325 with Tim Delaney the place he purchased a liquor retailer, and also you’re like, that sounds fascinating. This one goes to make you need to begin searching for companies.

Scott:
Completely. She’s so inspiring. What a deal with to hearken to her immediately.

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Scott:
One of many explanation why I’m so excited to speak to Codie is due to the thesis within the asset class of small companies, proper? It’s 2023, the place do you place your cash? Do you place it in actual property? Do you place it in shares? Do you place it in bonds? Do you place it in money? Do you place it in personal companies? What are we right here? One of many issues that’s engaging to me, eager about asset courses in a common sense, is that this marketplace for small privately held companies which can be typically owned by child boomers. So a few enjoyable info. I believe it’s like 58% of small companies are owned by child boomers, and as many as two thirds of them haven’t any formal succession plan. There are 10,000 child boomers retiring per day, and that ought to proceed for a number of years.
There’s no one to purchase these items. These companies, in the event that they’re not offered, will simply crumble or probably stop to exist over a time frame. And that’s why you should purchase these items at one, two, 3 times money circulate. It’s like shopping for a $300,000 home that produces $100,000 in annual money circulate. The problem is, who’s going to function this? How are you going to really know methods to run the enterprise? How are you going to know which individuals to position? How are you going to have the ability to stabilize it? How are you going to have the ability to develop it? And the way are you going to have the ability to finance it? And it is a complicated drawback, however for these which can be prepared to go and dive into this space, self-educate, maybe much more than you’ll self-educate to become involved in actual property investing, for instance, there might be phenomenal alternatives for returns right here.
Should you can develop that money circulate and get it to past one million or $2 million a 12 months, abruptly, not solely are you making one million to $2 million a 12 months, however your corporation turns into price extra as a result of it’s automated and stabilized, and a non-public fairness agency or one other purchaser should buy it for an even bigger a number of than you purchased it for. So there’s a really highly effective multiplier and growth impact on this class that must be very, very fascinating to our really entrepreneurial listeners. It’s not for everybody, it’s in all probability for a tiny minority, but it surely’s a robust asset class for many who are prepared to speculate the time and power into pursuing it.

Mindy:
Scott, do you’ve plans whenever you purchase your companies to carry them ceaselessly or to construct them up after which promote?

Scott:
I’m a pupil on this area. I hope I might aspire to purchasing a enterprise like this over the subsequent couple of years, possibly a few them, and repeating a small piece of the success that Codie has had together with her program. However once more, I’m simply studying about this for now and possibly in just a few years I’ll enter this market, however I’m very enthusiastic about this. And if I wasn’t CEO of BiggerPockets immediately, this could be one of many first locations I’d be trying personally to construct wealth.

Mindy:
Codie Sanchez is a reformed journalist, turned institutional investor to hashish investor and advisor to now founder at Contrarian Pondering and co-founder of Unconventional Acquisitions. She thrives on serving to folks suppose critically and money circulate unconventionally whereas allocating to what we name sweaty and boring small companies. Codie, welcome to the BiggerPockets Cash podcast. I’m so excited to speak to you immediately.

Codie:
Effectively, thanks for having me. I’m thrilled to speak to you too.

Mindy:
Effectively, let’s dive into your backstory. What does your journey with cash appear like?

Codie:
Lengthy. I used to be a baby of immigrants who got here to the US and felt that cash was one thing that might at all times be scarce, that cash would by no means actually be ample, that we might by no means rely on it throughout us. And in reality, if we ever obtained it, we must always actually ensure that we maintain onto it as a result of essentially the most harmful factor we might do can be to spend an excessive amount of and never save sufficient. And so I had loads of tales about cash that have been about, hey, cautious that you just spent that right here. Are you certain that you just returned that there? It was all this shortage and constraint. And the one actually profit to that I believe, was that I hate guidelines and being informed what to do.
And due to that story that I used to be informed to not do X and never do Y, led me to focus fairly aggressively on the truth that I by no means wished anyone to ever management my funds or to have to fret day-to-day about them ever once more. And so I stated, what if I simply make a lot cash that I by no means need to rely it and I don’t need to finances and I don’t have to look at my checking account each single day, as a result of in actual fact, I’m going to roll round in cash all day. And that finally grew to become my mindset, after which it grew to become somewhat little bit of an actuality.

Mindy:
So Codie Sanchez is somewhat bit like Scrooge McDuck.

Codie:
In my thoughts, I want it was really, that might be enjoyable. Somewhat barn full of money.

Mindy:
Swimming within the gold cash.

Scott:
Effectively, would you thoughts giving us somewhat little bit of element into how your profession obtained began and the way you transitioned to what you at present do?

Codie:
I began out in finance. I for a very long time did the standard route of Goldman Sachs, Vanguard, State Road, all these actually large corporations, and did properly within the conventional finance route after which finally didn’t need to work for the person anymore. I wished to work for myself. I wished to be the one who made the principles versus following them. And in order that finally led to me shopping for my very own companies, doing my very own offers versus doing them for a giant monetary agency.

Scott:
When you concentrate on this asset class and what we’re so excited to speak to you about is this idea of boring companies. Did you begin there with a selected acquisition or did you begin from a prime stage down? No, I believe that I would like put my cash into this sort of asset class due to these long run tendencies, after which from there I’m going to go and transfer in, or how did you come about this? Was it an intentional strategy or serendipitous to get you going all through that you just’ve gone?

Codie:
I began shopping for companies as a result of I didn’t need to be nervous about working for someone else and having to gather a paycheck. And so the enterprise was a way to an finish. It was, I’ll purchase this money flowing asset as a result of I would like it to exchange my wage, and I now not need to work in a 9 to 5 for 60, 70, 80 hours every week like I used to be on the time. I didn’t care if that enterprise was a sculpture manufacturing unit, if it was a landscaping enterprise or if it was a cleansing firm, so long as the {dollars} have been there. It was actually simply an exit path. After which as I obtained somewhat little bit of freedom and somewhat little bit of room to breathe, what usually occurs is you may suppose. It’s laborious to suppose when you may’t breathe and whenever you’re suffocated in work. And that modified for me.
And when that modified, I lastly realized, oh wait, there’s a thesis right here that’s larger. There’s a thesis that these small companies everywhere in the nation can be found for buying, that folks identical to you and I can do it, that you just don’t need to have one million {dollars} with the intention to purchase a enterprise that produces hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in income, that in actual fact there’s an entire lever that no one is utilizing and a fulcrum on which to position it that no one has even thought-about. And that took a few years for me to get to.

Mindy:
To begin with, kudos for utilizing the phrase fulcrum on our present. I don’t suppose anyone in 400 and so many episodes has ever used that phrase. I really like that. You talked about you don’t need to have one million {dollars} to purchase these companies. What sort of companies are you shopping for for lower than one million {dollars}, and what do you contemplate to be a boring enterprise?

Codie:
I contemplate a boring enterprise to be any enterprise that could be a mother and pop retailer usually, it’s a enterprise that has little or no of issues like proprietary data, patented expertise, actually subtle companies or merchandise. These are companies that don’t have a moat round them. They’re in each single group, and they’re issues like physician’s places of work, accounting practices, cleansing corporations, landscapings, roofing, trucking. These are on a regular basis normally brick and mortar or essential road companies. And the rationale you could purchase them for that decrease greenback quantity is often as a result of these companies don’t have a market for purchasers. It’s not like actual property the place everyone has normalized buying actual property repeatedly as an funding. Folks don’t take into consideration companies that means, at the least but.

Mindy:
You simply went towards Warren, my greatest good friend Buffet, and stated, you’re searching for companies that haven’t any moat. He’s searching for companies which have an enormous moat like your railroads. But additionally these companies are barely greater than one million {dollars}. No moat. That’s very fascinating. So these are going to be inexpensive companies. What buy costs are you ?

Codie:
Completely relies upon. These companies go all the way in which from, I’ve purchased a enterprise that was a publication for $8,000, to I’ve achieved multi hundred million greenback transactions and been a part of billion greenback transactions, though by no means led a kind of. So they might completely fluctuate in measurement, identical to there’s each measurement piece of actual property from a home you purchase it for $50,000 in the course of nowhere to a multi-billion greenback, let’s say industrial complicated or giant tower in New York. They utterly fluctuate. And the rationale that I don’t care a few moat is as a result of I believe that’s a fallacy that lots of people say in modern-day society that you just need to begin a startup and no one can are available and steal your market share and develop your market share. Effectively, most small companies in your group have zero market share. No one’s making an attempt to be, you couldn’t identify a nationwide landscaping service.
You couldn’t identify a nationwide roofing service. You in all probability couldn’t even identify one in your group or in your metropolis, in all probability not even the one that you just use. And so I believe it’s a little bit of a fallacy to suppose that we’d have to have companies which have these fancy issues that defend us from different folks, when in actual fact what protects companies from competitors on this area is baseline execution. Do you observe up together with your leads rapidly? Do you do the issues that you just say you’re going to do? Do you really rent folks which can be competent, incapable? Do you’ve any advertising in any respect? Do you’ve an internet site? These very small issues equal, I believe companies that at the least can rise up to a few hundreds of thousands of {dollars} if not really we’ve seen fairly just a few tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in income.

Scott:
Right here’s the issue that I might like to know the way you’ve solved on this area. These companies, let’s name them 350 to $750,000 in EBITDA or SDE. Should you rent a reliable CEO who’s skilled and is aware of what they’re doing, that’s going to eat up such an enormous proportion of the profitability of that enterprise should you’re making an attempt to put money into it and never function it your self. And it’s going to be very laborious to entice someone who possibly has these {qualifications} and is making 150 to $200,000 a 12 months who has expertise operating giant groups and may moderately pull this off, to stop their comfortable job and tackle a enterprise problem like this whereas assuming a pile of debt and placing down a cost. How do you resolve this elementary execution drawback?

Codie:
To summarize succinctly, don’t purchase a job, purchase a enterprise. The reply’s actually easy. Be sure you’re not shopping for too small of an organization or that you have already got an organization that has operators in place on the stage that it’s worthwhile to function them for the amount of cash that you’ve within the enterprise. Should you don’t have that, it’s a job, it’s not a enterprise and it’s both not sellable or you need to promote it for a really low a number of impact. However most individuals, if there’s an organization that’s making $350,000 to $750,000 SDE, which is simply wage for the proprietor, the common employee within the US makes someplace between $65,000 and $80,000 to run a enterprise, whether or not you’re an entrepreneur or a small enterprise proprietor. So we’re speaking about 10X that wage so that you can buy a enterprise and run the enterprise. So if it’s really a enterprise that has 350 to $750,000 in SDE, that’s really a reasonably good gig for most individuals.
I believe what now we have to be actually cautious doing that loads of us on the web I believe can fall into, is as a result of now we have large quantity of optionality and we possibly have do offers. A few of my offers are now not in fact close to that measurement. However after I first began out, my first laundromat enterprise did like $100,000 in income and $67,000 in revenue. And I used to be like in there coordinating with folks making an attempt to repair stuff. However I obtained that enterprise for principally nothing. And that enterprise then was sellable for 3X and it taught me the sport of acquisition after which of divestiture or promoting a enterprise. I believe to your level, purchase a enterprise, don’t purchase a job. Additionally ensure that your first deal doesn’t bankrupt you. So possibly go somewhat bit smaller than you assume. And for the common plumber that’s working within a enterprise after which buys the plumbing firm to run 350K to 750K sounds fairly good to me.

Scott:
Completely. I suppose I’ve been this sort of stuff, and I’ve been so excited to speak to you as a result of that is one thing that I need to get into as an investor. I believe that I’ve been approaching it from the, properly, if I need to really purchase it and never need to function it, then it’s important to take a look at these, it is a actually giant wager, with the intention to place administration that may really run one thing and nonetheless have an affordable return on funding. Effectively, it appears to me very troublesome in follow to go and purchase that laundromat, for instance. And achieve this in a means that’s worthwhile with out really working a factor myself at first. What would you say to that commentary?

Codie:
Effectively, I believe lots of people, if we take away you from it, so I believe folks have to earn, study, then they begin to make investments after which they grasp. Most individuals need to go from incomes to mastering, so that they need to go, I make some cash proper now. How about I apply my 250K I’ve and I’m going out and construct an empire of holding firm of small companies. The reality of it’s you simply don’t know sufficient. You don’t know methods to rent an operator but, you don’t know the place to seek out them, you don’t know what the fitting pricing is for them. So what I might say to most individuals is get your palms soiled on the primary acquisition. Identical to I’m certain you probably did together with your first actual property deal. You in all probability obtained your palms soiled, you in all probability did somewhat little bit of the rehab your self. You in all probability spent extra time than you wished to on that first deal.
However these reps can help you scale up actually rapidly, much more rapidly than should you had outsourced that first deal utterly operationally to someone else. So usually, except individuals are snug with danger and have loads of money, they are saying get your palms soiled in your first deal. Sure, the hourly wage that I paid myself after I was in excessive finance making possibly one million bucks a 12 months, if not excessive, six figures to run a laundromat, made no fucking sense. That made no sense. However that first laundromat transaction allowed me to scale as much as a bunch of different of them, and with out it I wouldn’t have been capable of be the place I’m immediately. And so I believe everyone’s obtained that second the place they need to sleep on the ground for a second in a brand new enterprise.
And should you love the sport, you then nearly can’t assist however become involved in it. Now, for you, in all probability a enterprise that solely does $67,000 in revenue is possibly somewhat bit too small. And so what you principally need to do is purchase somewhat bit larger of a enterprise and also you need to spend so much of time together with your operator eager about the way you’re going to run it in tandem with them. However I wouldn’t let you know in your first transaction to go purchase a enterprise, put an operator in place after which say, hey, it’d be superior should you might semi quarterly distributions. It’s in all probability somewhat bit unreasonable.

Scott:
Completely. I believe what you’re saying right here, what I’m listening to is, you’re making 600,000, one million {dollars} a 12 months, you’re eager about stepping into the laundromat enterprise right here. The reply is you’ve set to work that, it’s principally you’re going to pile this on prime of your day job should you’re making an attempt to transition into this world and also you’re going to go from 40 hours every week or 50 hours every week at your day job to 80 or 90 for a time frame with the intention to make this transition. And also you’re going to reap that profit for the remainder of your profession, since you’re going to go on the proprietor facet of the equation. Is that what I’m listening to?

Codie:
I don’t suppose there’s a couple of path, proper? Positive, sure. Choice A, you could possibly do this. Choice B, you could possibly purchase an even bigger enterprise, one which does 350 or 750K a 12 months and you permit your job as a result of, I don’t know, possibly you’re not making that in your W2 or in case you are making it, that may exchange a reasonably snug way of life. So you then simply go and put your 40, 60 hours within the enterprise. Choice three, you do a smaller deal and also you do it with one other operator on the facet and also you spend 10 or 20 hours every week. That’s one factor that’s totally different I take into consideration actual property than small companies, is I believe in shopping for small companies, everyone desires like, there’s like, what’s the one path? What’s the one strategy to do it? And the rationale why there’s a lot cash to be made in shopping for small companies is as a result of there’s not only one path.
The trail is how artistic are you able to be in your structuring? You guys know all about that in actual property. How artistic are you able to be in your structuring together with your operator? How artistic are you able to be in aligning a enterprise that you just would possibly have already got an unfair benefit with? For example, you guys are podcasters. Maybe you purchase a podcast manufacturing firm which already aligns with the corporate that you just personal and you’ve got some unfair data in, and you could possibly instantly herald new purchasers, however you really purchase a enterprise that’s uncorrelated as to if your podcast goes up or down with sponsorships, proper? That is only a reoccurring service enterprise. And so I believe there’s so some ways to pores and skin a cat in relation to shopping for a enterprise. The true query to ask your self is all about deal readability. What does a very good deal appear like for me?
How a lot cash do I need to make in a enterprise? How a lot time do I need to spend at it? The place do I would like it to be positioned at? What sort of trade do I would like it to be in? And after you have what I name your deal field or your thesis behind, I need to purchase X, Y, Z kind of enterprise, then your search will get so much simpler. It’s very straightforward in actual property to say, I purchase single household houses within the Austin Metroplex space which can be lower than $500,000, however permit for vendor financing at a charge under 3%. That may be one deal blocks, actually simple. Once you come to purchasing companies, you’ve so many extra choices than single household, multifamily and ranging varieties of business, you could get somewhat overwhelmed at first making an attempt to determine what your deal field is. However a very powerful factor is determining what a very good enterprise seems like for you. And that’s not a one measurement suits all.

Mindy:
You simply stated, don’t purchase a job, purchase a enterprise. And I believe that’s fabulous recommendation. I can hear lots of people, oh man, I purchased this enterprise as a result of I listened to Codie, after which all I do is figure at this job. How do you differentiate what’s going to be a job and what’s going to be a enterprise earlier than you really personal it and now need to work three, two jobs full-time to attempt to make your funding not crash?

Codie:
Effectively, loads of this comes right down to, so there’s 10 steps to purchasing a enterprise. Let’s reply it this fashion. There’s 10 steps to purchasing a enterprise. First step to purchasing a enterprise is knowing that the chance is on the market and that it’s doable to do with not loads of money if you wish to. And that that enterprise might probably exchange your 9 to 5, completely doable. Second is deal readability, which suggests, hey, I do know precisely what kind of enterprise can be good for me. I’ve requested myself, now we have 25 questions we ask you, however I’ve requested myself these 25 questions. Third is origination. How do I discover a enterprise? The place are they positioned? Fourth is due diligence. This could be this part. So how do I do know if it is a good enterprise that actually does what it says it does, the place the proprietor really solely works 20 hours every week and it makes this a lot amount of cash that they are saying it does so I do know what I’m getting myself into?
Fourth is negotiating. How do I negotiate properly with the vendor with the intention to get what I would like? Six is promoting you. So how do I persuade the vendor that I’m the individual to take over their little child that they’ve constructed their complete lives or that they’ve spent their complete lives constructing? Seven goes to be financing. So how do I get the cash to really do that deal? Eight is closing. So how do I take this enterprise with my legal professional and my accountant and really shut the deal total. 9 is the primary 90 days. After which 10 is development. And so if you concentrate on shopping for a enterprise that means, you’ve, I don’t suppose you may simply hearken to a podcast like this, exit and purchase a enterprise. I don’t suppose that’s a good suggestion for anyone listening immediately.
I believe in actual fact, you’ve 30 to 60, 90 days of studying. Should you spent 20 to half-hour in let’s say one thing like our course or studying a ebook or no matter you need to do, you could possibly study at 30 to 60, 90 days what your deal field is, methods to do underwriting, what a very good deal seems like for you, et cetera. And by the tip of 30 to 90 days, you could possibly transfer ahead on executing a small enterprise transaction. Now, do I believe that you’d be a professional at it? No. However I believe you’ll have sufficient understanding to the place you’re not going to bankrupt your self should you observe the steps. It’s not straightforward, but it surely’s easy.

Mindy:
Thanks for that honesty, as a result of I don’t need my listeners to be like, oh, I can go do that. No, it’s worthwhile to educate your self first. And I like these 10 steps. I used to be furiously typing as you have been saying them, so thanks very a lot.

Scott:
We’ve a parallel thought course of right here at BiggerPockets round actual property investing. The place should you’re going to put money into actual property, you need to spend dozens or a whole bunch of hours self educating. Most of our members say that they’ve educated themselves for months or years previous to make making their first transaction. And it looks as if it’s much more so the case whenever you’re shopping for a enterprise as a result of there’s this common framework of shopping for a enterprise. After which there’s the trade particular experience that you just’ll want to accumulate as quickly as you may after you do determine a deal so as to have the ability to competently work in it. Codie, what’s your purchase field and course of and what are you doing at present proper now to speculate on this asset class?

Codie:
Once I purchase small companies, we personal 26 proper now. Once I purchase small companies, immediately it seems very totally different than even two years in the past earlier than my media firm. As of late I purchase companies the place I’ve an unfair benefit, that may speed up my media firm or might be accelerated by my media firm. And so that may appear like I simply purchased a property administration enterprise, as an illustration, a portion of a property administration enterprise as a result of I believe that may actually assist offset my actual property. And in order actual property transactions begin to decelerate, as Airbnb bookings begin to decelerate, as we come right into a recession total, as I cease shopping for actual property as I’ve during the last two years as a result of I haven’t favored the costs, property administration continues to stabilize, as a result of everyone has to have their properties managed. And so I purchased a property administration firm for that motive.
And I discuss it so much as a result of now we have a property administration enterprise that we assist different folks scale up their property administration companies. So it’s like, all proper, I earn cash on the property administration enterprise. I earn cash on the enterprise that searches for greatest at school property administration corporations and provides them into ours, and it offsets my actual property portfolio. That’s a very good purchase for me. The second a part of my purchase field can be, final week I purchased a video manufacturing firm. And so we do loads of video, Contrarian Pondering on all my socials. And I used to be struggling as a result of I knew at media and I used to be discovering it was actually laborious to have leaders in that area. I used to be overseeing loads of modifying and far more concerned in a enterprise than I ever usually can be as a result of my face was throughout it.
And so I used to be actually explicit about how we have been doing issues. And it was taken up means an excessive amount of of my time, and I used to be tremendous overwhelmed by it really. And so I went out and began searching for who’re the very best at school folks in video manufacturing. And what I discovered is the very best at school individuals are largely positioned at our scale in LA, New York, loads of the large markets. So I both have to present them an enormous wage and persuade them to come back down right here, or I’ve to go to an ancillary trade. And so what I did as an alternative is I knew model offers are happening, advertisements and sponsorships are happening proper now because the market begins to downturn. And so I assumed, properly, why don’t I purchase a video manufacturing firm that usually works with manufacturers? They’ve a excessive consideration to element. They’re manufacturing values actually good. They’re tremendous organized, they need to hit deadlines. All of the issues we’re combating.
I’ll purchase one among them, they’ll be price much less proper now as a result of the market’s in hassle and I’ll plug them into my firm they usually’re going to take over all my operations. And in order that’s what I did. So proper now, my deal field could be very strategic. There’s lots of people on the web that exit they usually’re like shopping for 372 single household houses proper now with their community, or they’re shopping for each single laundromat or automobile wash they’ll discover. At a sure level I believe it’s important to ask your self the query of, is that this deal a part of my unfair benefit when you’ve achieved loads of transactions? And might I scale it to a stage that’s significant for me? Which is I need to make my companies make me at the least one million {dollars} a 12 months. And if they’ll’t do this, they’re in all probability not in my deal field proper now.
Now, 10 years in the past that was like 50 bucks is 50 bucks. If it makes me 50 bucks, nice deal. However that’s modified immediately and now the numbers are simply larger.

Mindy:
Okay. I really like that. Is there something that you wouldn’t put money into?

Codie:
Oh, tons. There are 5 companies I by no means wish to put money into, however there are in all probability additionally 50. The 5 companies I might by no means put money into are retail shops. So suppose boutiques, you simply take a look at the development traces of what’s occurring in retail shops proper now, each from a foot site visitors perspective and the price of lease and the competitors with e-commerce. I don’t do retail shops. Second is eating places. Eating places have one of many highest failure charges of any companies. Eating places usually are also very complicated to run. So it’s important to cope with stock, it’s important to cope with actually migrant workforces, it’s important to cope with shopper tendencies, it’s important to cope with seasonality. It’s simply too complicated even for someone like me.
Third is accommodations, that’s simply actual property masquerading as a enterprise. Fourth is Amazon FBA. Something the place a single platform can management my means to succeed in my finish purchasers, I’m uninterested. I need to management the tip expertise with the consumer and have the ability to talk with them instantly. And the final one would in all probability be something associated to consulting. Consulting has loads of key man danger, AKA one individual being the purpose of buy, why someone does enterprise with you. And so I don’t like to purchase consulting companies as a result of I really feel like that’s shopping for a job and when the opposite individual leaves I simply exchange them.

Scott:
Amen. I believe that’s superior. I agree with every part you simply stated, and I believe that’s a incredible strategy to strategy it, except I do like underlying actual property in a few instances, and I believe that should you’re going into retail, and I’ve heard a few traders being like, I’ll principally purchase this retailer for stock and I get the actual property as a bonus on prime of it. So there’s typically stuff like that you could find on this area. However yeah, it’s inferior to scaling one thing to one million {dollars} in revenue on a steady recurring foundation, which is your thesis.

Codie:
Effectively, and also you’re proper. I personal the actual property my automobile washes are on, as an illustration. I personal a number of the actual property that our laundromats are on. However the factor about these two issues is that they don’t have an expectation of service 24 hours a day. A lodge, they count on 24 hour service. This hospitality recreation that I believe is likely one of the increased ranges of entrepreneurship. And so in tandem with it masquerading as a enterprise and actually be in actual property, it’s a closely service oriented and excessive expectation enterprise. And so usually when folks purchase a enterprise, I’m like, let’s begin you off. Should you’re going to begin driving, let’s not study on a Ferrari. Let’s study on a Honda. And as soon as you may deal with the Honda, you then’re allowed to improve to the Ferrari, the Lamborghini.
Perhaps you could possibly fly a aircraft sooner or later, however like day one among driving, you get the tricycle. And so I attempt to speak at that stage for many on the web. After which in a few of our larger teams, now we have guys which have achieved eight, 10, $50 million transactions. And that’s a completely totally different ballgame. It’s additionally when it actually will get enjoyable. However that wasn’t that relatable to me 10 years in the past, and I don’t suppose it’s that relatable to most individuals listening on the web.

Scott:
All proper. I’ve a posh query right here. You began opportunistically with a laundromat. I think about at this cut-off date this was not a part of a grander technique to get to the place you are actually, and also you constructed it little by little to this, and sooner or later it’s shifted right into a platform first technique in your acquisition and your core enterprise. Do you suggest that folks begin with that platform and technique first or they only dive in and determine it out and let it evolve later? And the second a part of that query, which I believe is carefully associated, is what’s the exit plan right here? Is it one big conglomerate? Is it a non-public fairness kind holding firm that’s going to put money into giant quantities of properties or one thing else?

Codie:
Let’s begin with the second query. The top objective to me in life, most individuals attempt to have this 5, 10, 20 12 months plan. And I’ve appeared again on my life, none of it principally shook out that means. Should you have been going to inform me after I was getting my licensing at Goldman and State Road to enter funding banking and asset administration, should you stated, hey Codie, guess what? In 10 years you’re going to be doing TikToks on the web, I might’ve thought you out of fucking your thoughts. I might’ve thought there was no means. And but now we have achieved extra transactions and made extra money than simply about anyone I ever labored with again within the day. And so fortunately I didn’t follow my 10-year plan.
My 10 12 months plan written in my little journal that I write in each single quarter about the place I need to go, stated that I wished to move an asset administration enterprise for a big agency internationally in a number of places. Proper about now that appears like fingers towards a chalkboard. I couldn’t consider one thing. I need to do lower than return to fits and Wall Road. And so I don’t have a ten or 20 12 months plan. My solely 10 or 20 12 months plan seems one thing like this, I would like to have the ability to have freedom of optionality to do the issues that curiosity me at that second with the staff that’s tremendous excessive performing, that permits me to not need to work 80 hours every week if I don’t need to, and but offers me the choice to work 80 hours every week on the issues that I need to.

Scott:
The technique is flexibility, which is actually, the phrase that we use after we discuss planning your private funds. It’s all about flexibility and having it as quickly as doable and sustaining a versatile place, a financially free place all through your life. You’re simply take enjoying on a a lot bigger scale than what we usually see with private funds right here within the BiggerPockets Cash podcast. Going again to the start, that’s nice, the objective is flexibility, however there’s a technique behind what you’re doing, there’s a core technique. You talked about it earlier with Bolton acquisitions. When did it evolve from opportunistic money circulate investing on this asset class to extra of the clear lower technique that you’ve immediately?

Codie:
I began investing with a watch in direction of this one phrase of viewers in 2020 after I realized after watching Giants just like the Rock, George Clooney, Kylie Jenner, Ryan Reynolds make billions of {dollars} for issues that had nothing to do with their core competency, AKA appearing or being recognized on the web as a persona. I watched them and I assumed, what seems like extra enjoyable, operating a non-public fairness firm, which I do know loads of guys that run personal fairness corporations that make a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands if not billions of {dollars} a 12 months, or having this big viewers that turns into like a perpetual investor base so that you can faucet into and also you get to launch issues to them with principally zero danger to you so long as you perceive your viewers. And it was that second that I spotted I would like to vary my whole acquisition technique. Now not can I simply purchase simply automobile washes, laundromats, landscaping corporations, I now want to purchase corporations that may be accelerated by my viewers.
And should you’re listening to this, you’re at all times searching for your unfair benefit. So your first deal that you just do could be as a result of your dad owns a paint firm and since he’s painted houses for 30 years you’ve a chance to purchase him out or take over his portray firm. So that you do this. And also you run the portray firm for some time and you then understand you could possibly put in an operator and also you need to search for your subsequent deal. And the sensible factor to do could be that you just understand your portray firm’s probably not a portray firm, it’s a advertising agency. You’re really actually good at advertising and gross sales. And so as an alternative of shopping for one other portray firm, you would possibly purchase a photo voltaic firm as a result of you recognize that the consumer acquisition price for photo voltaic is a number of the highest on the market. And so when you have portray purchasers you could concurrently cross promote photo voltaic, you’re sitting fairly.
And so how I thought of it was simply, the place’s my unfair benefit the place my greenback can go a lot additional than anyone else? It’s somewhat bit extra strategic than lots of people on-line take into consideration issues. They need to educate. Right here’s X, you pay Y, rinse and repeat each single human. And I believe that’s an enormous disservice to you, the listener, as a result of I believe because the listener you have to be asking your self, I’m a graphic designer who seems is wonderful at doing animations. So due to that, I need to purchase an organization that may be accelerated by the factor that I’m uniquely good at. And that change was in 2020 for me, and I don’t suppose I’ve appeared again.

Mindy:
How are you funding these offers?

Codie:
Effectively, let’s discuss how I funded them at first. I’ve achieved like 80% of my offers up till the final couple of years, vendor financing. So just about all of my offers have been, hey, you’ve a enterprise, you need to exit, you’re getting divorced, it’s the 5 D’s. You will have dying, you’ve divorce, you’ve illness, you’ve one thing about choices, however principally the place you get into battle for someone else in your corporation or you’ve distribution, AKA you’re transferring, you go to a special location or no matter. So one among these 5 causes is normally the rationale why these folks promote. And due to that it’s worthwhile to promote a enterprise otherwise you need to exit a enterprise. I attempt to discover folks at their set off factors. At that set off level you’ve loads of leverage. And so what someone has divorce occur they usually need to promote of their enterprise, I need to be the one to choose it up for pennies on the greenback and be the one which cleanly distributes belongings to each events.
And so most of my offers have been achieved with OPM, different folks’s cash, vendor financing. 60% of all companies in small enterprise land will get offered with vendor financing. So it’s very normalized, not fully vendor financing, however some portion vendor financing. After which I might say I’ve in all probability achieved about one other 10% of my offers with banks, whether or not that was an SBA mortgage, whether or not that was only a mortgage from my native financial institution. After which the final 10% have been offers the place I’ve gone out and raised capital for them. So in a conventional means, I’ve raised both fairness or debt from family and friends with the intention to purchase a small enterprise. I believe most individuals ought to attempt to begin with a heavy bias to vendor financing and a decrease proportion down cost.
We simply had a man in our Unconventional Acquisitions group, which is the place we discuss shopping for companies. His identify’s Renaun, and he simply purchased a enterprise for $8 million, 100% vendor financing, $0 down. The enterprise is positioned in his geographical space, and the vendor of that enterprise goes to remain on for a 12 months to assist him transition. It’s an unbelievable transaction. Renaun was a reasonably excessive paid government making six figures in a gross sales capability earlier to that, had nothing to do with this sector kind of enterprise, however obtained actually good at negotiating deal sourcing after which looking for a means for each folks to win in structuring a deal.

Scott:
And I believe the benefit of vendor financing in loads of these transactions is it retains the vendor with loads of pores and skin within the recreation in order that they’re there to show you and be a marketing consultant or provide the solutions to questions that actually you’re not going to get each reply in a due diligence session. I believe that that’s a very highly effective device specifically on this area.

Codie:
Agree.

Scott:
Let me ask you a tough query right here. What proportion of the time would you estimate when a transaction like this takes place in an organization of couple dozen workers, possibly three or 4 management staff members, the place there’s not a change to the management staff within the first 12 months following acquisition? Is it extra frequent or much less frequent for there to be substantial adjustments?

Codie:
Quite common, I might say. Sometimes although, you because the proprietor are the one which’s going to need to make a number of the adjustments. So if you concentrate on it, the vendor has in all probability been checked out for a bit in the event that they’re promoting a enterprise. It takes some time to get to that time of actually deciding now I’m going to execute on a sale. And through that poet, oftentimes the staff takes their foot barely off the fuel. And so what I might say is I’ve seen much less folks depart due to administration change, that’s a giant concern that folks have, that appears to be, I might say it’d be fascinating to return and really see if I might determine what our actual proportion is, however lower than 10% of the time do I lose a senior chief that I wished to maintain as a result of I purchased the enterprise. Fairly uncommon for me.
The extra frequent factor is that these leaders within the corporate simply aren’t adequate. And so that you need to discover your operator who can even recruit leaders. That’s a very key part of discovering an operator, is they’ll’t simply be an executor. They need to even be a frontrunner. And leaders imply that at prior corporations they’d different folks that adopted together with them, that might need to come to the corporate alongside them. So a very good strategy to test and see in case your operator goes to be good, going to have the ability to lead, going to have the ability to retain and recruit expertise, is to ask them, hey, man, like to have you ever run this million-dollar. Enterprise that I simply purchased. You appear to have parallel talent units. If I used to be to deliver you over, who else would you need to deliver? And the way large of a staff would you need to have at this firm?
And in the event that they have been like, I would want this sort of individual and this sort of individual, you go, superior. Who’s that? Who are you aware? And instantly you’re going to have the ability to inform how linked they’re and are they really a frontrunner or have been they only a supervisor of individuals?

Scott:
Superior. I’ve a query on this entrance. As a primary time CEO, I discovered the problem of figuring out poor performers after which eradicating them rapidly and professionally to be very overwhelming for the primary little bit. I think about the tradition in funding banking is somewhat totally different and there’s no difficulty with that. And so it’s only a commonplace at any time when there’s a poor performer, we transfer out as a result of there’s 100 folks in line previous that and we’re all used to going at one million miles an hour. However I do need to name out that what you’re saying right here, and other people want to listen to this, is whenever you purchase a enterprise, you’ll hearth a number of of the leaders, nearly actually, particularly should you’re doing greater than as soon as. You’ll have to do it rapidly. You’ll have to do it professionally, and also you’ll have to have a really clear understanding of what attractiveness like in every a kind of administration positions.
And so this isn’t a task, should you’ve by no means needed to terminate somebody or should you’ve by no means needed to terminate somebody for poor efficiency versus they only clearly behave badly otherwise you had a transparent factor, that is going to be a brand new and really, very troublesome expertise for you at first. Would you agree with that, Codie? And do you’ve any remarks on that?

Codie:
It’s by no means enjoyable firing someone, ever. I don’t suppose it ever will get higher. I’ve really by no means met a frontrunner that goes, simply fired someone immediately. It was superior. I simply don’t suppose that these folks actually exist, even in finance, it simply doesn’t really feel good. You don’t love to do it to people, even should you suppose that they, quote unquote, deserve it. That being stated, I’m unsure you deserve the fitting to be an proprietor should you can’t have troublesome conversations. And so I believe somewhat little bit of that is having a dialog with your self and saying, am I the kind of human who desires to steer folks? Who desires to be an proprietor? Who desires to depart a mark on this world? And if that’s the case, there are some things that I’ve so as to add to my device belt by way of life, and one among them is that I’ve to launch folks when they don’t seem to be a match for my firm and when I’m not a match for them.
And the second that you just understand that, one, it’s at all times higher than you suppose it’s going to be. Very seldom have I ever fired someone the place they’ve, one, been stunned or two, it’s gone badly. And that’s as a result of it’s actually vital to your level about managing them out. And these items is tactical and individuals who don’t lead groups or run companies don’t love speaking about this really in any respect. Nevertheless it’s actually vital that you’ve check-ins early and also you get snug with friction. I’m at all times telling my managers like, cease giving compliments to folks in your staff which can be underperforming simply because it makes you’re feeling higher. It’s important to have the robust dialog. How horrible wouldn’t it be should you have been studying to trip a motorbike and each time you fell over, your mother and father have been identical to, yeah, simply preserve doing that. Didn’t work. However you need to preserve doing precisely that means the place you retain leaning all the way in which over to the left. They’re by no means going to study to trip the bike.
And in order a very good chief, you’ve to have the ability to say, hey, man, your gross sales numbers are down, you’re not making sufficient telephone calls. Would you like me to pay attention in to what’s happening there? And to really give folks suggestions, after which folks gained’t be stunned what one thing occurs as a result of you should have been teaching them in and up or out for a time frame already.

Scott:
So once more, I believe that is going to occur, proper? That’s the rationale why you’re getting a very good deal on the enterprise, is as a result of in lots of instances it’s poorly run and it’s important to recycle the administration staff in lots of of those instances, or at the least a number of the administration staff in a few of these offers. I believe that’s one thing for folk to concentrate on and suppose by way of. The second query I’ve is first time CEO, which goes to be nearly everybody shopping for one among these kind of companies, they’re going to be first time CEO. How are you aware what attractiveness like from these folks? That was, once more, the most important problem for me coming in as I had by no means employed a CFO. I’d by no means employed one among these roles. How do you shortcut that and have higher odds, at the least in your first enterprise?

Codie:
These are actually the secrets and techniques. I do three issues. I’ve a 30, 60, 90 day plan for each new rent that I deliver onboard. It seems the identical throughout each single enterprise. It’s a part of our onboarding documentation. You possibly can Google onboarding plans for Google, Amazon, et cetera. You possibly can Google 30, 60, 90 day plans. You possibly can steal different folks’s homework, which is what I might suggest you do. After which simply implant the stuff about your organization. And within that 30, 60, 90 day plan, I’ve them and or I write out what does success appear like within that 30, 60, 90 day window? So inside the primary 30 days, you should have achieved X, Y, and Z, 15 or 30 issues. Inside the primary 60 days you’ll have achieved these items. Inside the primary 90 days, you’ll have achieved these items. The attractive half about that’s at every interval, so after 30 days, I say, okay, have you ever met everyone on the staff?
Okay, copy. Sure. Have you ever created a brand new roles and tasks in your underlying staff members? Okay, you haven’t. Why? And so I’m principally going by way of a checking off each a kind of issues, after which it’s very straightforward to see whether or not they’re having success or not. The opposite factor that’ll preserve you sane as a enterprise proprietor at all times is a scorecard. And so each single enterprise ought to have a scorecard or some quite simple Excel spreadsheet the place it’s like, right here is our objective, right here is how every individual contributes to the objective in a roundabout way. If this individual doesn’t have numbers that they’re instantly aligned with, you’re in all probability doing it unsuitable. And I say all this with the concept that, this form of stuff is stuff that I do 60% of the time each time.
There’s at all times, even after 15 years of me being in enterprise, the place I’m like, I don’t have the KPIs and the scorecard precisely proper right here, so I’m simply going to let this individual run with it. After which in fact one thing goes sideways. And so give your self additionally somewhat love and beauty as a enterprise proprietor that everyone talks about how good they’re on the web and understand that the reality of the matter is that that’s very uncommon. Should you do 60 or 70% of these things, you’re going to be a prime performing proprietor. I can’t let you know the quantity of householders that by no means do 30, 60, 90 day plans, that by no means have underlying scorecards, it doesn’t imply your corporation goes to be a failure, simply means you might need to work more durable than it’s worthwhile to. And I don’t actually wish to work more durable than I have to.

Scott:
I’ll chime in there and say that I believe there’s an working system that should you’re a enterprise proprietor, you need to go borrow one. I might suggest EOS, 4 Disciplines of Execution. There’s a ebook on EOS Traction. I might rent the coach to implement it or I’d go together with 40, however simply borrow an working system. Invent your personal after you’ve used one among these ones which can be broadly talked about for just a few years, as a result of why reinvent the wheel and reinvent each a part of operating a enterprise? Simply put in place a playbook that’s already in place. Do you’ve something like that or do you discover that operators who do which can be extra profitable?

Codie:
I believe having a system is essential. Loads of my companies do run on both EOS or Rockefeller, and definitely I’ve learn Traction, I like loads of it. The one factor that I don’t love about it’s I don’t love the extent 10 conferences, how they run these at EOS. I believe that it may be somewhat too constrained in a few of my corporations. I additionally suppose it doesn’t result in an amazing tradition match. It results in a tradition that focuses on very particular techniques and execution each single week, versus, I’ve at all times abided by the quote of, if you wish to educate a person to construct a ship, you don’t educate him to seek out and lay the planks and to screw them in. You educate them to yearn for the open sea. And so I believe the actual hack in operating a enterprise is are you able to encourage folks with the cult-like set of mission and values to need to do the issues that you’d by no means have to clarify to them and micromanage over them.
And my least favourite companies are those the place I’m checking off 472 to-do listing objects as a result of I’ve to pink, yellow, and inexperienced each member of the staff. And my favourite companies are those the place I give attention to making a tradition that places first private duty and private excellence as a key to non-public success and thus enterprise success. And so should you can, wherever you may, give attention to the gentle issues really. Most individuals will let you know to give attention to the techniques, I’m a giant believer in specializing in the story.

Scott:
Codie, do you’ve any closing recommendation for somebody who’s listening, who desires to get into the enterprise of boring companies?

Codie:
Twofold. One, I believe you guys did a very good job of not making it sound too simplistic and simple. You can also purchase a enterprise with $0, spend zero time on it, turn into a millionaire, have a Lambo and a yacht. That’s not what we’re speaking about right here. And on the flip facet of that, additionally assume that you just as a human are rather more succesful than you’re giving your self credit score for. And assume that you just’ve met loads of enterprise homeowners. How sensible did you suppose all of them have been? Have you ever been impressed by each enterprise proprietor that you just’ve engaged with? The reply isn’t any. I’ve met a bunch of the large time enterprise homeowners, and I can let you know what, 10% of the time I’m blown away. And 90% of the time I believe, I’m frequent for you.
And so for these listening, if it does sound like you might be the kind of human that wishes to personal a enterprise, that wishes to make the affect, that I believe is essentially the most highly effective affect any human can have, which is to construct one thing, to make use of others and to create so different folks can eat. I believe there’s no increased calling. And I believe that purchasing companies permits you to do it whenever you don’t have that startup seed within you that you’d die should you didn’t construct it, however as an alternative simply need to get within the recreation. And I believe getting within the recreation is half the battle, after which you may determine what recreation you need to play when you get there.

Mindy:
Codie, this was so eye-opening and so useful. I actually love that you just didn’t are available with, oh, anyone can do that. All it’s important to do is that this one factor, and you then could be a millionaire too. It does take work, but it surely doesn’t need to be this 150 hour every week grind. I really like the way you introduced the unfair benefit thought or suggestion. That’s nice. Everyone has an unfair benefit. What’s it that you just do you could make the most of, that you are able to do higher than anyone else? And I had a good time with you, Codie. Thanks a lot. The place can folks discover extra about you?

Codie:
Effectively, if you wish to study extra about shopping for boring companies, which I believe is possibly much more fascinating than me, I might go to contrarianthinking.co. That’s our free publication. It comes out weekly. There’s a ton of nice concepts in there for methods to earn cash unconventionally. We even have a secondary publication at unconventionalacquisitions.com, known as The Boring Enterprise Transient, and that one is all about acquisitions every week for you tremendous nerds. I might take a look at both a kind of. After which I’m Codie Sanchez and all of the interwebs. I believe YouTube is a enjoyable strategy to get a excessive stage view of shopping for a bunch of companies. We’re spending a ton of time on YouTube, so possibly I might begin there.
Plant within your self that seed of perception. Get a pair concepts rolling round in your head by watching movies that’ll solely take 10 minutes of your time after which dive deep into the newsletters and learnings. That’s in all probability the place I’d begin.

Mindy:
Thanks, Codie.

Codie:
Thanks.

Scott:
Codie is a wealth of data. You bought to go test her out on these sources. After which Instagram you submit superior stuff each day nearly. So actually respect it and study so much from you.

Codie:
Effectively, thanks each. Nice questions. I loved the time right here.

Mindy:
Thanks, Codie. We’ll speak to you quickly.

Codie:
Bye guys.

Mindy:
All proper, that was Codie Sanchez, and that was wonderful. Scott, I’m so excited that we obtained to speak to Codie immediately. Listening to her was simply, I need to go purchase companies, I need to begin studying extra about this, and I need to write down my unfair benefits in order that I can begin determining what I can do higher than different folks.

Scott:
I’m so impressed by her. Once more, like I stated, I observe her content material and suppose that she does a incredible job of framing the chance and could be very actual in regards to the places and takes with this. I do suppose, once more, that she’s so pushed and so direct and so blunt and so forceful and captivated with what she talks about, that don’t be fooled. Should you don’t have that persona and also you’re not prepared to go there and be direct. And once more, she didn’t say this out loud, however I believe that 90% of the time when an organization is offered on this setting, there’s going to be adjustments and terminations or folks resigning from the management staff and maybe different elements of the companies on this asset class. And should you don’t have the abdomen for that, this isn’t going to be for you.
So once more, a small proportion of oldsters will thrive on this surroundings, however those that do will I believe discover the very best returns of any asset class in the US of America, possibly the world over the subsequent 10 to twenty years right here due to the low buy costs and the unbelievable alternative to streamline efficiencies in lots of of those companies.

Mindy:
What you’re saying, and I can see primarily based on what Codie was saying, I can see how these are, I’m listening to my furnace man, Bob, from Circulating Air. Should you’re ever in want of a furnace in Longmont, you go to Bob. Everyone is aware of that you just go to Bob. Everyone that I speak to, who’s your furnace man? It’s Bob from Circulating Air. Everyone talks about Bob from Circulating Air. However you begin speaking to Bob and he doesn’t have a succession plan. I believe now one among his kids is working with him, however for some time he wasn’t. And what are you going to do with your corporation when, he’s not getting up there in age, however everyone ages each single day, so what are you going to do whenever you don’t need to work right here anymore?

Scott:
That’s one instance of a enterprise that could possibly be cooling off till somebody brings a plan to warmth it up.

Mindy:
All proper, Scott, I believe that’s going to wrap up this episode of the BiggerPockets Cash podcast as a result of Wealthy is just not ever going to do higher than that. He’s Scott Trench, and I’m Mindy Jensen saying, take care teddy bear.

Scott:
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Mindy:
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