SE01 E01 - The Splash Story: from Scaling to Sale | With Mark Curtis

Welcome to the first episode of On The Entrepreneur's Journey featuring Mark Curtis!From this podcast you will learn:--Mark Curtis's entrepreneurial origin story with Splash Car Washes.--Scaling in the early years: bootstrapping.--after perfecting the model, the decision to replicate the concept.--Inevitable mistakes (no processes, poor site selection, the difficulty in replicating the processes and culture to a larger store base)--How Splash has minimized labor turnover in a high turnover industry.--The decision to become a consolidator and to take on Private Equity in order to expand.--What it's like to go from an autonomous CEO to working in a PE owned company.--The importance of a recurring revenue stream and how it enabled the company to be worth more to a buyer.--What's the plan from here, Splash's Vision 3 years out.I hope you enjoy this episode.#entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #business #podcast #podcastshow #newepisode