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My First Million · June 15, 2023 · 55m

How to Buy a Boring Business for $0 Down

Codie Sanchez on acquiring small businesses (laundromats, car washes, HVAC companies) with creative financing. The thesis: millions of baby boomers are retiring and their businesses have no successors. The greatest wealth transfer in history is happening in boring businesses.

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Sanchez: 10,000 baby boomers retire daily, and 70% of small businesses have no succession plan. This demographic luck is available to everyone — the return depends on who develops the skills to acquire and operate these businesses.
Sanchez left a prestigious Wall Street career to buy car washes and laundromats. The courage required: telling your Goldman Sachs colleagues you now own a laundromat. Each social rejection survived built the muscle.
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