This week, Victor and I spoke with Mike Griffin about buying, building, and operating blue collar service businesses. Mike is the Managing Partner of the Griffin Brothers Companies and is an incredibly experienced operator in the blue collar space. In our conversation, we covered the following topics:

- How to compete effectively in service businesses
- Hiring, retaining, and training great employees
- How Griffin Brothers incentivizes their business managers based on P&L
- The advantages of sharing admin services between portfolio companies
- Deep dive into the landfill business
- ZoomUp - a seed investment strategy for young entrepreneurs in blue-collar industries

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