Acquiring Isn't Always a One-Way Door

Gabriel, you acquired a residential remodeling business in early 24. Your ownership ended up being two years. You told me it was a quote, very expensive MBA.

We're going to learn what we can from your journey. Let's begin with some background on you please Gabriel.

It was a great experience overall, lots of international students and from there I made my way to Houston in 2015. That's where I actually enrolled myself on an MBA. I didn't do much outside of school during my college career because I was swimming.

So after my MBA networking I started my career in oil and gas. Different supply chain roles I would say from 2016 to early 2024 I never stopped working during my early search as well. So had a background in supply chain operations, manufacturing to distribution and logistics.

So during, during that time I did develop an expertise to work with people from different backgrounds to kind of enhance myself as a leader, as a manager. And those skills are the ones that I intended to use to buy and operate a business at a high level. During my last two years in oil and gas, I was bored, right?

I was working three hours. I was, you know, just very good at my job at that time. And, you know, whenever you're born in a company and you don't have too much motivation, that kind of opens to curiosity, right?

A lot of us start that way just being curious, see what else is out there. And I stumbled upon the term entrepreneurship through acquisition, through YouTube, through podcasts. You know, your podcast was one of those as well.

You know, Kodi Sanchez was one of those. And then just by meeting some mentors here in, in Houston, you know, through the it's called ATA Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Circle chapter, I was able to actually prepare myself to, to buy a company. So overall, that's my background. We can elaborate more if you want.

Yes, let's do that. Gabriel. So you said you're working 30 hours a week in your job, you feel like you've worked, mastered it effectively, and, and so you have free time on your hands. And when somebody feels not challenged by their job, they start looking around. But for many people, that probably means how to get a promotion or, or what better job at a competing company to go pursue it doesn't…

So. So why was that where your attention was drawn?

So I come from a family of entrepreneurs. I mean, my dad was always, he always had his own business. That's how he helped us out and paid for private education in Mexico.