What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp

podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Now let's kick this thing off. Mike Botkin is the founder

of Benchmark Group. I really enjoyed this conversation because Mike has been rolling up various

landscaping and home services companies. We talked all about

the economics and the advantages he has in that market. It's a fascinating conversation,

and I hope you enjoy it just as much as I did. Anthony Pompliano runs Pomp Investments.

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of his personal opinion. This podcast is for informational purposes only. We've got Mike here. Mike,

how are you? I'm doing well,

guys. So Mike, what's really fascinating about this is you've got a background where you did some

stuff in technology and then you realized this other market opportunity. And you went over and you

started to kind of build a great business here in more of like home services. Can you just walk us through,

you've done two acquisitions, is my understanding right now, but just walk us through maybe at a

high level. Like what is the strategy of what you're trying to accomplish? Yeah, exactly. So we're

in home services. We are, our acquisition so far have been landscaping, but we are, our investment

thesis is broad in terms of just general

home services. We want to buy businesses that are ran by service people, not business people.

And that's not disrespectful to them because a lot of them live like kings in their own kind of

area. But we feel like we can come on. We can add systems and processes.

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