18 Mar Acquiring Minds: Reward for a Brutal Transition $760k EBITDA on 3 Hours/Week | Dan Tagliatela Interview
Dan Tagliatela leaned heavily on a single financial metric — return on assets — to assess which business he would buy. Which ended up being a 50-year-old asphalt sealing business. No recurring revenue. Consumer facing. Discretionary spend. And yet, through the lens of return on assets, Dan saw a valuable business. A one-in-a-hundred opportunity. One that today enjoys almost 40% margins on $1.8m in revenue, and requires only 3 hours of his time a week. Not that it was easy… In the pre-call, Dan described his transition to me as “drinking from a firehose, while another firehose sprayed me in the face.” Please enjoy my conversation with Dan Tagliatela, owner of Stutz Driveway Sealing.
