19 Feb Acquiring Minds: How to 4x a Small Manufacturer
Today’s is an update episode with a popular guest from 2024, Tato Corcoran. We re-ran Tato’s first episode during Christmas week, which sparked interest in learning what has happened in the two years since that first interview. Tato bought a very small manufacturer of sinks for bathroom vanities, with just $400k in revenue and 3 employees. As Tato put it in our first interview, “Looking back on it, [the seller] didn’t have a business, he had a job that paid him.” If you haven’t heard that first interview, check it out to hear what the first year and a half transitioning such a small business is really like. Well, things are better as of January 2026. Revenue in 2025 reached $1.6m, which is a quadrupling of the baseline and blew away Tato’s own goals. Excitement about the business’s future is a key theme in our conversation today. Of course, plenty of challenges remain; they’re just different challenges now. Tato just had her first baby in October, and she invokes a parenting truism to describe business ownership: It doesn’t get easier, the challenges just change. Welcome back to Tato Corcoran, owner of Brandt Molded Marble.
